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Once upon a time an acorn landed on a hen named Chicken Little, who ran to tell Ducky-Lucky that the sky was falling. Ducky-Lucky told Goosey-Loosey, and in a little while all the creatures of the nursery story's barnyard, without bothering to look up, decided that the sky was indeed falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: How High the Sky? | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Geography for Everyman | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Toronto last week, the Globe & Mail's Columnist Jim Coleman wrote her an open letter: "We read in the public prints where some acorn named Avery Umbrage, who lives down in the Excited States, is trying to have you expelled from the amateur ranks because you accepted a nice yellow Buick phaeton as a gift. . . ." Amidst the commotion, Prime Minister Mackenzie King reassured his people; he guaranteed to the Commons that everything possible was being done to safeguard Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ado About an Auto | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Slangs: acorn-to experience adversity; allot upon-to intend; agazed-astonished; acceptress-a girl who says yes right away. One word (chic) Sato couldn't define but could use in a sentence: "You'll be a chic before you are heck to flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Agazed and Eujifferous | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Oakland Acorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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