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Word: boulevarding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misty buildings ... in the black trunks of the chestnut trees and in their rich green leaves shining from the rain's varnish . . . What man who has not felt the wet seeping into his shoes as he hunches his shoulders under the late October rain on a lonely Paris boulevard has ever fully savored Paul Verlaine's tender and melancholy verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Died. Geraldine Carr, 37, the gabby Mabel of TV's popular I Married Joan; in a midnight automobile crash on Laurel Canyon Boulevard; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...upon their country's rubble, poking through blasted factories, tinkering with ancient generators and spinning frames, burrowing into blocked-off coal mines. Last week about 8,000 North Koreans were at work converting downtown Pyongyang into the showplace of a new Red colony, with the usual shiny Stalin Boulevard and a marble International Hotel (185 rooms with bath), in preparation for a big Soviet celebration on Aug. 15. "The fronts of houses and buildings, at least," warned Pyongyang newspapers, Potemkin-style, "should be repaired and made presentable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH KOREA: The Double Invasion | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Orange Pop & Farewell. "The Boulevard Paul Bert, once the pride of an attractive French colonial town, lay almost deserted. Shops were padlocked. Little bistros with such nostalgic names as Bar Bretagne and Café de Paris were tightly boarded. So was the Cinevox Théátre, which still advertised a movie called La Dernièe Chance. A big cotton mill, which once employed about 20,000 Vietnamese, was also closed down, but the French mill operators seemed in no great hurry to leave. Said one wrinkled old Frenchman, who had lived in Namdinh for 17 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Retreat from Namdinh | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...this street so named is to irritate a running sore on the elbow of the University. I think the governors of the University, who pay so much in taxes to the City of Cambridge, should prevail upon the Cambridge fathers to change the name of McCarthy Road to Welch Boulevard. Thus would an evil influence be eliminated, and a true son of Harvard be rewarded for his labours. B. T. Littfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVIL SORE . . . | 5/26/1954 | See Source »

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