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Word: wagonsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naturally, a college group which, in a few years, will be concentrating on the care and maintenance of expensive suburban children and station wagons does not go in for radical thought or action. From the first orientation week, freshmen learn the value of conformity. They dress in T shirts and...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Colgate: Solid Businessmen of the Next Decade | 10/10/1953 | See Source »

The tide of war had begun to turn at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, when Britain's grand plan to take the Hudson River Valley and thus split the colonies came abruptly to grief. General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British and Hessian troops, came south from Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Man to Remember | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Ritchie's stack of orders revealed that the additive was used in tinkling Good Humor wagons. Such hard-fisted businesses as the Gillette Co. and General Foods Corp. were satisfied AD-X2 customers. Engineers from industry, mechanics from the Army and Navy, battery salesmen, all praised the additive in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Alchemy of Batteries | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Breakfast at 8:30. Instead of a single central corridor for patients and visitors, corpses and dinner wagons, there are three corridors. The central one is used by doctors, nurses and patients. Balconies on each side of the building serve as corridors for visitors, who thus cannot get in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Push-Button Hospital | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Tautest sequence: the circus' climactic race across the guarded border in broad daylight. Under the guise of giving a parade, the whole ramshackle outfit tumbles past police watchtowers and barbed wire barricades in a helter-skelter jumble of sentry gunfire, jugglers, acrobats, clowns, performing dogs, ponies, elephants and lumbering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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