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Word: wrapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This suggests perhaps that the Poets need not wrap themselves in musty cloaks of symbolism and obscure verbiage to place their audiences since Eberhardt's social drama and Miss Lurie's fantacy were both successful for the Poet's' Theater and entertaining for its spectators...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Poets Theater | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

...Wrap yourself around a tree in championship company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Sends All Comers To Ski Against Green Today | 4/26/1952 | See Source »

...basis of a long and otherwise delightful corresponding friendship with Sears, Roebuck & Co., I have only one criticism to make of your cover. Sears never in its 60-year history learned to wrap packages as compactly and neatly as pictured there. As proof, there is a trail of 25 pounds of grass seed between Boston and our front door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...twelve-car freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take a bit of blotting paper, chew it for a while, and wrap it moist around a 25? piece. When wires are clipped to this combination, it makes a battery strong enough to work a transistor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Versatile Midgets | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...nothing to do with the magazine. For an office, he rented a basement room under a speakeasy at 1 Minetta Lane, in Greenwich Village. When the first issue of 5,000 copies arrived from the Pittsburgh printer, Wallace hired barflies from the speakeasy to help him and Lila wrap and address them. They piled the mail sacks into a taxicab, took them to the post office, then stopped in a café to toast the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Common Touch | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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