In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the development of the Westrex single-groove stereophonic record cutterhead led to the next wave of home-audio improvement, and in common parlance, stereo displaced hi-fi.

Most hi-fi amplifiers made between the 1950s and the 1990s and virtually all DJ mixers are so equipped.

In the 1950s, the terms " high fidelity " or " hi-fi " were popularized for equipment and recordings which exhibited more accurate sound reproduction.

The bachelor pad then became a symbol of the 1950s cosmopolitan male, and a typical " pad " included: a bar, an array of artwork, furniture ( usually designed by a well-known architect ), minimal decór, and a hi-fi system for entertaining.

The Acrosound transformer circuit was later used in many home-built and commercial hi-fi amplifiers in the early 1950s.

Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

Charlton became one of the famed Busby Babes, the collection of precociously talented footballers who emerged through the system at Old Trafford in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as Matt Busby set about a long-term plan of rebuilding the club after the Second World War.

Several collectors have catalogued the songs including John Meredith whose recording in the 1950s became the basis of the collection in the National Library of Australia.

As television became filled with family-oriented comedies, the 1950s saw a trend toward more adult social situations.

During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s.

Atkins became a member of The Opry in the 1950s.

This troublesome device was superseded by thermionic diodes by the 1920s, but after high purity semiconductor materials became available, the crystal detector returned to dominant use with the advent of inexpensive fixed-germanium diodes in the 1950s.

The term became more widely assimilated into English by the mid 1950s, with long-term expatriates in significant numbers from other particular countries or regions also being referred to as a diaspora.

The New Reasoner was the most important organ of what became known as the " New Left ", an informal movement of dissident leftists closely associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The stadium later became known simply as Wembley Stadium and it became England's permanent home stadium during the 1950s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Sullivan was a respected starmaker because of the number of performers that became household names after appearing on the show.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.

Gothic Romances of this description became popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, with authors such as Phyllis A. Whitney, Joan Aiken, Dorothy Eden, Victoria Holt, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart, and Jill Tattersall.

In the late 1950s, Cukor became involved with a considerably younger man named George Towers.

The Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation focused their energies there.

Over the course of the 1950s, as television began to pervade the popular culture, game shows quickly became a fixture.

During the 1950s — as a result of these improvements and the strong international export prices — beef, cotton, and coffee became significant export products for the first time.

From the 1950s onwards London became home to a large number of immigrants, largely from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica, India, Bangladesh Pakistan, which dramatically changed the face of London, turning it into one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

In the 1950s, chromatic harmonica became popular in Hong Kong, and players such as Larry Adler and John Sebastian were invited to perform.

In the 1950s, evidence of Hoover's unwillingness to focus FBI resources on the Mafia became grist for the media and his many detractors.

This word is correctly a tradename that goes with the Cousteau-Gagnan patent, but in Britain it has been commonly used as a generic and spelt " aqualung " since at least the 1950s, including in the BSAC's publications and training manuals, and describing scuba diving as " aqualunging ".

In the United States, Eaton's Corrasable Bond was a very familiar brand of erasable typing paper during the mid 1950s and 1960s, and " corrasable " became almost a generic name for erasable typing paper.

The term steam railroad continued in use in the generic sense long after most steam power disappeared from American railroads by the 1950s, but is now only used to describe tourist railroads that run steam locomotives.

The OED records kata as a loanword in English, from the 1950s in reference to the Judo katas due to Jigoro Kano, and from the 1970s also of Karate katas ; but the word has come to be used as a generic term for " forms " in martial arts in general, or even figuratively applied to other fields.

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

In the late 1950s the most widely used term was " neuroleptic ", followed by " major tranquilizer " and then " ataraxic ".

The computer term bootstrap began as a metaphor in the 1950s.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

Throughout the 1950s, spelunking was the general term used for exploring caves in US English.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

A proof of the politically stabilizing effect of the banana boom of the 1950s is that even Velasco, who in 1952 was elected president for the third time, managed to serve out a full four-year term.

In the mid-to-late 1950s, the term radio engineering gradually gave way to the name electronic engineering.

The origin of the divergence of the term " extreme sports " from " sports " may date to the 1950s in the appearance of a phrase usually, but wrongly, attributed to Ernest Hemingway.

The term " Generation X " was coined by the Magnum photographer Robert Capa in the early 1950s.

The term " Gardnerian " was probably coined by the founder of Cochranian Witchcraft, Robert Cochrane in the 1950s or 60s, who himself left that tradition to found his own.

In the 1950s, the term high fidelity began to be used by audio manufacturers as a marketing term to describe records and equipment which were intended to provide faithful sound reproduction.

Because the Liberals were still mostly classically liberal, Diefenbaker promised to outspend the incumbent Liberals, who campaigned on plans to stay the course of fiscal conservatism they had followed through St-Laurent's term in the 1940s and 1950s.

The term kickboxing ( キックボクシング ) was created by the Japanese boxing promoter Osamu Noguchi for a variant of Muay Thai and Karate that he created in the 1950s.

Many believe the term comes from early 1950s Las Vegas, when guests would often be given a " free roll " of nickels to play at the slot machines upon check-in.

These developments — re-evaluation of the entire Western value system ( love, marriage, popular culture, shift from industrial to service economy ) that took place since the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in the Social Revolution of 1968 — are described with the term Postmodernity, Influences on postmodern thought, Paul Lützeler ( St. Louis ) as opposed to Postmodernism, a term referring to an opinion or movement.

Pop music ( a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of " popular ") is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll.

In the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records.

The term " social epistemology " was first used by the library scientists Margaret Egan and Jesse Shera in the 1950s.

Although the term " Unicode " had previously been used for other purposes, such as the name of a programming language developed for the UNIVAC in the late 1950s, and most notably a universal telegraphic phrase-book that was first published in 1889, Becker may not have been aware of these earlier usages, and he explained that " he name ' Unicode ' is intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding ".

Since the late 1950s, aerospace engineers have used the term " unobtainium " when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects, except that it does not exist.