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Word: branded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Ted Metropoulos of the 1956 eleven told the audience that "it was a distinct privilege to play the Ivy brand of football," and extended his best wishes to Tom Hooper, captain-elect of next year's team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Says Football Can Help Raise Support for College Drive | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

Sending a Library of Congress audience into a gale of scholarly snickers, aging (79) Biographer Archibald Henderson, a perennial examiner of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, trotted out a brand-new after-Shavian notion. It seems, related Henderson, that Shaw once got a letter that got the better of him. It was addressed to George Bernard Shawm. In a beard-tossing fury, Shaw roared to his wife that his correspondent could not even spell the name of the world's greatest man. Moreover, fumed G.B.S., there was no such word as "shawm." Shaw's wife, one of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...SOFT DRINKS will be tried by root-beer maker Charles E. Hires Co. This winter Hires will test ginger ale in Philadelphia area under brand name of "Purock." Scheduled for spring trials: grape, orange, perhaps cola flavors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Under the conservative leadership of Senator Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic party has offered no legislative program of its own, but has waited to see what Eisenhower offers and then cooperate or occasionally force a compromise. Johnson defends his friendly brand of opposition with the claim that there is little difference between what Eisenhower proposes and what the Democrats themselves stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Opposition | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

Many officials complain that "lowincome" families drive up to food distributing centers in taxis or new cars. Said one: "When I saw one man stuffing that food into the trunk of his brand-new automobile. I figured that something was wrong with the system." W. A. Moore, who oversees distribution in Pulaski County. Ark., says that about half of the people on the county's free-food rolls would be removed if they were investigated, but there are not enough county workers to check on them. Taxpayers-and politicians-have learned that opposition to the program is extremely unpopular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Giveaway Grocer | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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