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Word: columbus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homecide. In Columbus, Clarence McLoughlin decided to kill himself, disconnected a gas pipe in his one-story clapboard home, dozed off, later reached for a cigarette, struck a light that demolished the house, suffered only minor injuries, was found still lying on his couch in the wreckage, told firemen: "I forgot about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Guaranty Trusty. In Columbus, Ohio, when an elementary school teacher told her class to write themes on what they would like to be when they grow up, Darrell Miller, 9, said that he was interested in banking, added: "To be a president of a bank you have to have a good record and no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...romantic notions withered by reality is that of human space explorers who will sail out into the solar system like Columbus into the Western Ocean. The day of these heroes may come, but most of the scientists who spoke at Denver think it will not come soon. The present job, they said, is to gather scientific information, and this can be accomplished better by expendable instruments than by fragile, weighty humans. Some of their opinions and projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Far the Moon? | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Physicist DuBridge should have been around to discourage Edison. Then we wouldn't have disk jockeys. If he could have told Columbus that a round world was loose talk, we wouldn't have California. Heaven knows what we'll get from Mars or the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...band of about 12 thugs attacked three Freshmen and three Bostonians late Saturday night on the corner of Columbus Ave. and 4th St. Of the six assailed, however, only one, an unidentified man, was injured. The others were picked up by four Freshmen who drove by in a station wagon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Thugs Attack Freshmen Downtown | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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