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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chanters from Lloyd's Al Malaikah Temple in Los Angeles had practiced Lloyd's favorite songs (Marcheta, The Donkey Serenade). Choice sequences from Lloyd films had been put together to be shown on a screen, finally dissolving into a shot of Mrs. Lloyd and her three children-Gloria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

It took 20 Ibs. per acre of old-style bait (bran and sawdust poisoned with arsenic) to control the hoppers. The newest bait (bran poisoned with chlordane or toxaphene) is so much more effective that five Ibs. per acre is enough unless the hoppers are almost full-grown. The biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War in the West | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Through the fall and winter months of the U.S. concert season, no group travels farther and gives more performances than the Trapp Family Singers (last season: 125 concerts from coast to coast). When summer comes, the Trapps retire to their 660-acre farm in the Green Mountains near Stowe, Vt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Life in Vermont | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

In Kansas, farmers reported freakish results. Wheat had fizzled out where early prospects looked promising, had produced well in areas written off as no good. Yield ran from as low as 2 bushels an acre up to 40. The Kansas crop was almost a complete reversal of last year'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Upset Basket | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Assault, 1946's Horse of the Year, and fourth highest money winner of all time ($668,020), failed in one comeback attempt last season and was retired to stud on Texas' 875,000-acre King Ranch. When he was found to be sterile, his ailing front leg was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeback No. 2 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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