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Word: 50th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeks girl, is rejected. Act Two: Girl seeks boy, is accepted. Act Three: They part. Such is the basis of Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen, the 50th anniversary of whose death the Tufts Arena commemorates in this sixth and final production of its current season...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Love's Comedy | 8/9/1956 | See Source »

Last week a robust Food & Drug Administration celebrated its 50th anniversary. Each year it passes judgment on the edibility, potability or safety of products worth more than $60 billion. Each week it removes an average of 98½ tons of contaminated food from the market−enough to feed poisonous meals to 131,000 people. It has driven from the nation's drugstore shelves such once popular devices as eye-cup-like gadgets to restore sight, has purged labels of fanciful prose; e.g., one imaginative drugmaker touted ordinary sarsaparilla as a cure for everything from "female complaints" to syphilis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: There Ought to Be a Law | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Earlier in the program, Monte M. Lemann '03, representing the Law School Class of 1906, presented Dean Griswold of the School with $53,879, the first such gift to the School from a 50th reunion class. Griswold also announced that as of yesterday, the School had received $387,306 for its Fund from 5828 donors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: James P. Baxter Says Business Should Help Out Education More | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

...Lady Docker even more tearfully: "It's not the loss of the gold cars that makes me feel like this. And weren't they fun? They were like my children. No, it's that lovely party I was planning for 25,000 B.S.A. workers for my 50th birthday on June 23. A tiptop affair -and now it's all off. How could they do this to him after 17 years? Why, he's such a hard worker that he had a through line to the firm from our yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Gold-Plated Daimler | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...President is apparently counting on the assumption that the "unenlightened" policies cited above are no longer typical of the alumni body as a whole. He is confident that the revolution of the past two decades has indeed transformed the4Two alumni, Class of '03, have a laugh at their 50th Reunion in the Lowell House courtyard...

Author: By Samuel J. Walker, | Title: Harvard's Alumni: The Old Grad Grows Up | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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