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Word: bookmark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance, and not even noticing as his bookmark fell to the ground, he shut his text firmly and got ready to rest at one of the shelves and began searching. Surprised, Lucius stopped counting...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: The Silent Generation | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

...governor of a state where I don't intend for federal troops to ever march," throbbed Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, tears welling out of his eyes. "Law and order in Tennessee will be preserved for Tennesseans. Is a bayonet going to be the bookmark of Southern education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Prick of the Bayonet | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...told the first drove of reporters. But to Einstein's lasting astonishment, Americans were ready to idolize the shy professor with the eccentric look and demeanor that connoted "Genius." They read with fascination that money bored him (once he used a $1,500 check as a bookmark, then lost the book), that he was absent-minded (he once walked into the salon of a transatlantic liner wearing his pajamas), that his second wife, Elsa, once ate the orchids on her plate at a formal banquet, mistaking them for the salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Genius | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...words on her bookmark are perhaps her most memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Busy Mystic | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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