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Word: bowsing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tusked Apparitions. Slowly the frontier of Brazilian settlement was pushing west from the coast into the jungle that sheltered the shadowy Xetás. In 1952 a gang of land clearers captured a naked young Xetá girl. While they were still debating what to do with their prize, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Stone Age | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

An Eyeful for Auntie. Auntie got an eyeful. Army Secretary Stevens looked "about as dangerous as an eagle scout leading his first patrol." Roy Cohn "looks like a boy who has had a letter sent home from school about him, and has come back with his elders to get the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Queen of the Corps | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

¶ Columnists. "Hedda Hopper I like. She's a gallant, crazy old gal with lots of steam. But Louella Parsons I don't like. Louella used to be a reporter with me in Chicago; she was one of the worst reporters the town ever knew . . . She's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How to Lose Friends | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

This will mark the beginning of Harvard's campaign to move up from last year's lowly seventh position in the Ivy League, and if it is to enjoy any success in this endeavor a victory today must be considered mandatory. If the varsity loses to Cornell, the psychological disadvantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity Begins Ivy League Campaign Against Strong, Deep Cornell Team at Ithaca | 10/4/1958 | See Source »

Like an eager duck bobbing after great white swans, a venerable, 33-ft. cabin cruiser named Foto last week followed the four sleek 12-meter yachts sailing over the course near Newport, R.I. Skittering across the yachts' bows, hovering a few yards off their lee rails, Foto followed every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Salt-Water Photographer | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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