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Word: balboa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he died. It ran last week. Across Page One, the Journal spread Forrest Warren's goodbye and "God bless you" to his San Diego friends, who had taught him, he wrote, that "people are still interested in helping their neighbors." Two days later in Balboa Park, 2,000 friends attended his funeral. As Forrest Warren had requested, the preacher kept his remarks brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exit Smiling | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...just decided to dismember it, and was tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present) is clever, if weighty; whether the one attribute offsets the other will depend on the reader...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

After filing his story and getting his first night's sleep in four days at Balboa, Dozier returned with Bracker and Shellaby. Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...weather this Fourth of July weekend is warm, and sunny, the U.S. people will go to their zoos by the hundreds of thousands. From New York's 251-acre Bronx Zoo to San Diego's magnificently landscaped Balboa Park, they will wander along the tree-shaded walks, peering into cages, gawking over moats, throwing peanuts to the elephants and popcorn to the bears, lolling, sweating, drinking, eating-enjoying, in sum, what is one of the most universal of summer pastimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Died. J. Warren Kerrigan, 67, whose small fortune made (and shrewdly saved) as an early (1911 to 1923) cinematinee idol allowed him to spend his last years pleasantly puttering around his garden; of pneumonia; in Balboa, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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