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Word: united (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birmingham, technicians asked the visiting Metropolitan Opera troupe to have their pictures taken to help launch a new mobile X-ray unit. Soprano Lily Pons agreed, and tossed out a challenge: "You will see the most wonderful lungs you have ever seen . . . I can hold my breath longer than anyone else at the Metropolitan. What's more I can sing [a continuous perfect high note] for 13 seconds without taking in more air." Tenor Jan Peerce countered with his boast: "I can hold my breath one minute and 13 seconds with my mouth full of pebbles." Basso Norman Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Golden Moments | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Aggressive Al Sawyer has moved up to join Ron Huebsch and Pete Brooke on the first unit, and Hank Wood has been promoted to the second trio, where he'll play with sophomores Phil Waring and Todd Goodwin, Chuck Edwards, Skip Baldwin, and Jim Telfer are the third midfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Meets Yale In Crucial Game Tomorrow | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

Also up before the joint session was a proposal calling for an amendment recognizing "the family as the natural primary social unit." Action on the amendment was postponed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Legislative Session Kills Tax Proposal, 155-115 | 5/15/1952 | See Source »

...market, that with ample materials it may prove to be the largest maker of single-room coolers this year. This claim is hotly disputed by York Corp.'s President Stewart E. Lauer. Since York not only makes its own but Philco's room-unit as well, York's Boss Lauer thinks he holds first place, claims 40% of the market. Chicago's Mitchell Manufacturing Co. insists that it is second. In the package-unit group, General Electric (which sold the units for the Dallas housing group), Chrysler Corp.'s Airtemp Division and York all claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Making Cold Hot | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...already doing a $1 billion annual business in industrial jobs, hopes to boost this fast with home sales, has other tricks up its sleeve to expand sales. One of them, now being worked on by Fedders-Quigan and one or two others, is a cheap, easily installed air-conditioning unit for cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Making Cold Hot | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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