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DECEMBER-Dangerous When Wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...milieu always makes comparisons, and I am no exception. I would like to pass on one of these observations because it shows up a gross inadequacy in a very important domain of American education--language training. As far as proficiency in foreign languages is concerned, most Americans are like wet hens compared to their Dutch counterparts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUAGE TRAINING | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

LIQUOR-BY-WIRE will soon be a reality. Taking a cue from the florists, Manhattan's Beverage-By-Wire Inc. has made arrangements with dealers in 18 wet states to deliver gift liquor ordered by telegram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...dark night, remaining strictly intangible and indefinable. The advance-guard ghosts in this collection include one which appears simply as a spot of green slime and goes "drip, drip, drip" on the sleeper's face, and another which disguises itself as a strip of wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunting Season | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Dangerous When Wet. In Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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