Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wend your way down Hanover street, passing peanut vendors and stumping missionaries, you'll notice something different in the air. It's apt to be the smell (ugh) coming from a dozen cheap bars, or the odor (delicious) issuing from the kitchen of the Old Venice Pizzeria. Few things about Hanover street are calculated to make the Dartmouth fugitive nostalgic. The Old Venice does it bit with cheese, tomatoes, clanti, and low prices...
According to Polk, Stakiopoulos had revised his evidence half-a-dozen times to fit new factors in the case...
Hilton thought he had picked up a bargain. For a mere $3,000,000, Hilton Hotels Corp. and half a dozen outside associates will acquire 70% of the common stock in a building which cost $26 million to build and furnish in 1931. (He also acquired $5,700,000 in bonded debt...
...Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...
Crowell is the same publisher who brought out Cheaper by the Dozen (TIME,, June 13), another tale of life with father, which was a surprise bestseller last spring. With full publicity behind it, Riot could easily sell almost as well. Yet the book has little of Dozen's natural air of comedy in it; it relies on carefully measured doses of laughing gas, slightly under pressure...