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Word: plainest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...begins at home in disguising-and glamorizing-the surprises. Gift wrappings worth some $150 million will be bought to sheathe Christmas presents this year. Never has the U.S. family (which last Yuletide spent an average $3.17 on wrappings) had a wider choice in tissue and bows, from the plainest papers at 25 tissue sheets for 25? to the fanciest at $1 a sheet. All this spending for wrapping will provide a fine Christmas present for Chicago Printed String Co. With a multicolored array of 185 different kinds of paper and some 3,000 varieties and sizes of ribbon, it claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Fit to Be Tied | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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