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Word: wagonsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the future, the U.S. car will probably not grow any longer, nor will it get much lower. But it will be wider and roomier, with better visibility and more safety features. It will also undoubtedly become more functional. The station wagon first started out as a farm carryall, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Cellini of Chrome | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

* Groaned the Roman poet Juvenal, circa A.D. 100: "Who but the wealthy can sleep in Rome? The crisscross of wagons in the narrow, winding streets, the shouting of drovers make sleep impossible. Hurry as we may, we are blocked by the surging crowd . . . One digs an elbow into me, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: EUROPE'S PLAZAS | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Unquenchable millions of Americans packed their children into sedans and station wagons and hit the road. For the moment, at least, summertime rites seemed more important than civil rights; personal clouds were fluffier than the faraway blossom of the latest atomic shot; disarmament was something for Harold Stassen to worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Summer 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

There were, of course, buses, station wagons, and other such mechanized diversions which rolled over the road into the County Club and aroused excited warnings from the public address system; there were, of course, many ants in the food, and there were, of course, those who left early.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Essex Features Sun, Sea, Sand to Amuse Class of '32 | 6/12/1957 | See Source »

Candy Butcher. Replacing old-style coach-car candy butchers, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is equipping New York-Washington passenger trains with stainless-steel-and-plastic vending wagons designed by the Coca-Cola Co. Manned by attendants trained to tinkle a polite bell instead of loudly hawking their wares, the carts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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