Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crown has become the mysterious link-indeed, I may say, the magic link -which unites our loosely bound but strongly interwoven Commonwealth of nations, states and races...
...ample bosoms produced "Bust-O-Fill"; the current bosom-conscious fad has resulted in "Kurv-On," "La Contour" and "Charm-On," which, says the Food and Drug Administration, "have about the same effect on the development or structure of the female breast as Smith Brothers cough drops." The "magic detector" of Dr. Albert Abrams, a roaring success in the '20s, popped up again last year in San Francisco. The detector enabled Dr. Abrams to "tune in on the electric vibration coming from a drop of blood and tell exactly what disease the patients were suffering from...
...villages and the Forum a swampy marketplace, the proud and pleasure-loving Etruscans ruled Italy from the Tiber to the Po. In the end, the Roman legions crushed the loose confederation of Etruscan city-states and razed their walls. Etruria's bizarre hobgoblin world of superstition, ritual and magic provided the folk mythology from which poets from Virgil to Dante evoked their images of Hades and Hell; its art was buried in underground tombs to await latter-day grave robbers...
...brainchildren of drawling, blunt-talking Texan C. V. Wood, 38, a onetime industrial engineer whose survey on Disneyland's prospects so impressed the master that he was invited in to build the park. At present, Wood is supervising construction of five others (including Denver's Magic Mountain, Great Southwest Park near Dallas, Montana Magica in Caracas), has half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north of Boston in Wakefield, Mass. Most spectacular feature: a 19th century New England fishing village, from which the kiddies...
...mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were placed near fractions into which the gland material had been divided, their fluttering wings told the scientists which parts contained the magic substance...