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Word: pulleys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Dollars for Doughnuts | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Reynaud and Mandel were quartered in the left wing. Reynaud, who has cycled for fun and sport for many years, was reported to have asked for a stationary bicycle to keep his trim little legs in shape, a pulley weight to flatten his waistline. Mandel, feared in politics for his thoroughgoing dossiers of the careers of France's great and near-great, asked for pen, ink, paper. Daladier, whom the war strain turned from a fairly pleasant individual into a red-faced, moody old bull, was more taciturn than ever. In the daylight he scrawled a lengthy history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Trials, Tribulations | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...private madhouses had their hands so full that they were obliged to shut their doors . . ."). In 1727 the old King died and the coronation of George Augustus and pomp-loving Caroline (who had a "petticoat so heavily jewel-encrusted that it was found necessary to contrive a sort of pulley that en abled her to raise the hem when she knelt down") ushered in the Augustan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quennell's Queen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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