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Word: watt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Girls running for student council representative are: Ingelberg Blass, Nancl Boyd, Anne Jeffrey, Ruth Joseph, jean Ross, Vera Servi, Margot Sproul, Rowena Strauss, Evelyn Thompson, and Phyllis Watt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe '54 Nominates | 10/24/1950 | See Source »

...batteries of six 1500-watt bulbs--the same type used for major league baseball games--comprise the lighting unit. Three batteries are attached to the Stadium wall, the other three top a trio of removable 45-foot towers at the edge of the practice enclosure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Spot Lights At Football Field Held Finest Ever | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

Good for Shingles. Conservative Party whips, foreseeing a close vote, had pulled M.P. Sir George Harvie-Watt off a New Zealand-bound liner, were flying him back from Gibraltar. Outside the House of Commons, hundreds watched the arrival of the invalids. Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps and Hugh Dalton were brought back from rest cures, R. W. G. Mackay from a hospital. Thomas Hubbard, awaiting an operation, turned up, pale and haggard, with two attending doctors. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had been suffering from shingles, afterwards wrote: "Medical science is wonderful. First it was deep X rays. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Clash of Steel | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...interests. Writing to John Randolph on possible reconciliation with England in August 1775, he reminded him about a deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good as to direct Watt Lenox to get . . . coarse woolen to wrap her in, and then to pack her securely in a wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 51 to Go | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Since rats are nocturnal and deeply suspicious of humans, they had to be conditioned to movie-acting. First, they were put in a small enclosure lit by a 200-watt electric bulb. When they were used to the glaring light, they were exposed to human voices and camera noises blared from a loudspeaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Peek at Peekers | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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