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Word: adams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country; therefore it takes a number of days to cable a house and build various steel towers. I talked some time prior to the program to the writer and director-twice if my memory serves me. Please bear in mind that these gentlemen didn't know me from Adam's off ox-I daresay that should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...official representative of the Josiah Quincy family, Mark deW. Howe '28, professor of Law, said his grandfather really meant no more to him than to the audience, and he might just as well "talk about Adam...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Quincy Gets Master at Inaugural Dinner | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

...Hawaii. Hero Gardner McKay, who has had more advance publicity than most established stars, proved himself a performer with all the animation of a monkeypod; his face, said one reporter, looked "like a death mask of Gary Cooper." The plot line spun itself out as the story of Adam Troy, Korean war veteran, who dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki and Captain Troy are also headed for a hurricane, an engine-room fire, a rock fight on Pitcairn Island, a death struggle with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Aloha & Ballyhoo | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...ADAM EHLERT Cranston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Oldest and best known is scholarly, affable George Cohen, 40, whose The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve caused something of a sensation at last year's Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Here Come the Monsters | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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