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Word: adolph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flickery days of the nickelodeon, a little (5 ft. 5 in.) Hungarian immigrant named Adolph Zukor decided that the way to lure customers into his second-floor emporium in Manhattan was to give them a thrill. Zukor installed a glass stairway under which a waterfall tumbled down over electric lights. It was the movies' first lesson in spectacular salesmanship, and it was Zukor's key to success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Early Tycoon | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Adolph Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, today will settle Eliot's disputed 5 to 2 hockey victory over Winthrop last Friday. Eliot scored four times with an Eliot man officiating before the regular referee appeared. Yesterday Leverett took a 1 to 0 forfeit victory over Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT HOCKEY WIN DIGPUTED | 1/13/1953 | See Source »

...Aspinwall was re-elected over Republican State Senator Howard Shults, 39,676 votes to 39,647-a majority of exactly 29. Current breakdown of the new House: Republicans, 221; Democrats, 212; Independent, 1; one seat vacant (since the death, two days after Election Day, of Illinois' Democrat Adolph J. Sabath-TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One Month After | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...prizes will be presented by Guatsav Adolph VI, king of Sweden, in ceremonies at Stockholm Wednesday. Purcell shares this year's prize in physics with Stanford's Felix Bloch. Both simultaneously developed methods for measuring magnetic forces in atomic nuclei...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purcell Embarks for Sweden Saturday to Get Nobel Award | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...will of the late Adolph J. Sabath, Democratic Representative from Illinois, who died at the age of 86 two days after being elected to his 24th consecutive term in the House, was filed for probate in Chicago. Sabath, who arrived in Baltimore in 1881 as an immigrant from Czechoslovakia with $2 in his pocket, left an estate valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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