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Word: balding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a Little "S." But Taft and others were sure there were. Colorado's bald-domed Eugene Millikin thought he had flushed a booger out: there was no time limit to Point Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Texas Tom in the Bush | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Said bald-pated Golfer Crosby: "The real reason I came over was to get me a wig from the Labor government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rugged Roydt & Ancient | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...would have happened to America in the turbulent 19303-and later , -if this minuscule handful of voters had gone the other way?" Admirers of F.D.R. who have as much" faith in the U.S. as Roosevelt had will feel that the nation would have survived. At times, Gunther's bald style fails him and his subject entirely: "Young Roosevelt was still at Harvard. Presently he found himself in love with Eleanor. He kept this passion a great secret, however; he did not even tell his roommate . . . Late in 1903 he asked her to marry him, and she at once accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Let's Wait | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...turned out, this was nothing but a canard. Quitting was the last thing in the mind of Jack Blanton, a dignified, slender man with alert eyes and a bald-eagle head. One of the best-known country newspapermen in the U.S., Editor Blanton, winner of a University of Missouri award for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1939, was still at work, and was going to stay there for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When I Was a Boy | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...starting cry of "Ready all. Row!" Harvard Coach Tom Bolles clamped his battered felt hat down firmly on his bald head, wrapped his black slicker around him, stood high in the middle of the coaches' launch, gripping two stop watches. Big Jim McMillin, dressed in undersized Marine green jumpers, stood nervously beside him. For nearly a mile, as the launch dropped farther & farther behind, M.I.T. and Harvard matched strokes in third and fourth places on the pace set mainly by Pennsylvania and Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poor Nephew | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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