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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen minutes later, when Fenton swung into his final approach, visibility had dropped to one-sixteenth of a mile, a blanket of fog and smoke still hugged the ground. Fenton chose to go around. What was the weather at nearby Seattle-Tacoma Airport? Visibility ten miles, ceiling unlimited. That was the last the tower heard from Fenton. The big plane roared over the field, slashed into a stand of fir trees, and fell, flaming, in an open lot outside the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Journey's End | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...tiny Saar, a miniature (1,000 sq. mi.) Ruhr populated by Germans but ruled by functionaries of France, last week freely chose to stay as it is: an "autonomous" bailiwick attached to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Status Quo Approved | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...partner in this selection, Alicia Markova, is a lyrical performer. Although she chose a less exacting and less exciting variation, The Sugar Plum Fairy, her technique was flawless. To Les Sylphides, she brought more spirit and charm; Michel Fokine's choreography includes a series of tours en l'air which Markova handled beautifully. At one point, however, she tangled with Paula Lloyd who is a more angular, energetic dancer, and who is not particularly well suited to this genre of ballet...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Ballet Theatre | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

Everybody's All American, Dick Kazmaier 1GB, tells why he chose the Business School rather than a career of professional football in an issue of "Collier's" on sale today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kazmaier Considering Long Run, 'Collier's' Article Says | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...years after the Bronx Zoo incident the artist, Miss Katherine W. Lane, received a commission to decorate the projected Biological Laboratories, and a further commission to execute two animal figures, each to rest on either side of the new building's front steps. Miss Lane instinctively chose rhinoceri as her subjects...

Author: By Erik Amfithfatrof, | Title: Ladies With A Past | 12/2/1952 | See Source »

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