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Word: browed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hair styling, history tells us, first came to the New World in the form of a severe off-the-waist pigtail sweeping primly off the pure brow of one Hepzibah Smith, colonist. Spreading swiftly over the continent, it soon replaced the more primitive native styles; pigtails were seen everywhere in the land and few there were who dared to flaunt the dictates of the prevailing fashion...

Author: By John Forand, | Title: Hair Runs Gamut; Pony to Poodle | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

...rehearsal's end the audience cheered, the orchestra bravoed, and the members of the string section politely tapped their instruments with their bows. Mopping his brow, smiling, and smoothing out a few wrinkles in his turtle-necked sweater, Bernstein acknowledged the kudos and turned to leave. As the audience filed out through the doors, two little girls clambered onto the stage waving autograph books...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Symphony Idol | 3/6/1952 | See Source »

Said a vice president, mopping his brow: "It's a crisis, but not the really bad one. The bad crisis will come later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Trouble for Aramco | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...bedchamber with tears in his eyes, took his blond newborn son in his arms and kissed him. "Thanks, Pasha," the King told Obstetrician Ibrahim Magdi Bey, his words automatically bestowing a title on the lucky doctor. Then, reverently, he kissed his 18-year-old Queen Narriman on the brow and left the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Blessed Day | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Like any full-time heavyweight thinker, British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell juggles many kinds of ideas, some sound, and some mere sound. Sifting them apart has kept his critics in a dither for half a century, and may furrow posterity's brow even longer. The Socialist earl, now 79, has taken all knowledge for his sphere and kicked it around like a soccer ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright-Eyed Rationalism | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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