Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope you'll like it," the host replied. "Queen Mary came the other day, and seemed to approve." In fact, she had come twice, and, said the host, had firmly expressed a conviction: "This should have been done 50 years ago...
...artist who had gotten his notice two months ago from London's Old Vic repertory theater (TIME, Dec. 27), Sir Laurence Olivier had to admit last week: "I guess we are doing pretty well...
...boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
Dramamine's usefulness as a seasickness cure was discovered by accident. The drug was developed three years ago, by Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co., as a treatment for allergy. A year ago Drs. Gay and Carliner gave it to Mrs. Genevieve Ciesielski, of Baltimore, who suffered from hives and, incidentally, from car sickness. It cleared up both...
...most responsible for the boom in boxers is John P. Wagner, a Chicago utility financier and onetime Great Dane breeder. Thirteen years ago, Wagner took a $4,000 gamble by buying Dorian von Marienhof, the champion boxer of Germany. Then he talked 50 or so people (including Jack Dempsey and Sally Rand) into buying shares in his prize brute...