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Word: california (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bravo for Alec Gushing. Why waste time catering to cash customers when the State of California is willing to dole out $4,000,000, and then Uncle Sam, not to be outdone, forks over an equal amount. Gushing gets my vote for snob-con man of the year. HERB AMMERMULLER Great Neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...audience to hear it as "superb and wild," but for Pegeen Mike Flaherty, who lives in it, it is "this place where you'll meet none but Red Linahan, has a squint in his eye, and Patcheen is lame in his heel, or the mad Mulrannies were driven from California and they lost in their wits"--not a decent man in the lot. Since Pegeen is a romantic, brainy, and spirited girl (well played by Helena Carroll with the right sort of peppery vigor), the local manpower shortage has made her "the fright of seven townlands for my biting tongue...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Playboy of the Western World | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

...laid unholy hands on it, which was a good idea, since it has one of those comic opera plots which are usually best left to Mozart or Rossini or the Comedie Francaise or oblivion. Mr. Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

Dealing out annual awards, the American Society of Civil Engineers honored, with a prize for outstanding research, University of California Professor Hans Albert Einstein, 54, son of Physicist Albert. Engineer Hans's contribution to science, more down-to-earth than his late father's famed E = mc2 formula, was "to the knowledge of transportation of sediment in flowing water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Brush, a four-year-old filly, outran favored C. W. ("Big Smitty") Smith's Hillsdale in the stretch, set a world record of 1:46 2/5 for a mile and a furlong, to win the $58,100 San Antonio Handicap at California's Santa Anita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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