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Word: creeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better of grandson William I. Roberts III - he bought a new house in Levittown, Pa. and moved out with his son William I. Roberts IV. The old place seemed empty. Last week Owner Roberts, now 74, finally sold out for a "price that would knock your hat in the creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The House | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Audie Murphy, 29, most decorated soldier of World War II, now a Hollywood cowboy (Duel at Silver Creek), and his second wife, Pamela Archer Murphy, 31: their second child, second son; in Hollywood. Name: James Shannon. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

There is little purpose in attempting to establish an Adams type. Figures show it to be a scholarly House, but there is a sizable athletic representation. Neither is there geographical predominance from Brooklyn, Boston, or Battle Creek, and there is a good distribution of clubmen, prep school alumni, and high school graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oldtime 'Gracious Living' Thrives at Adams, Within Varied, Active Intra-House Group | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

Infantile paralysis was noted as uncommon but regular and widespread (and therefore endemic) by Britain's Dr. Michael Underwood in 1784. Sweden had the first reported epidemic of polio in 1887. Seven years later came the first U.S. epidemic, in Vermont's Otter Creek Valley. Around Rutland and Proctor there was no fewer than 119 paralytic cases. By brilliant horse & buggy epidemiology, Dr. Charles S. Caverly concluded that the old endemic infantile paralysis and the new epidemic polio were one and the same disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Arizona's form of justice last week crushed Short Creek for good. The Arizona Supreme Court ordered the men to live only with their legal wives, but most of the women have dispersed throughout the state since the Governor overturned the Short Creek variety of paradise. Now 162 children are left with unwed mothers to grow up in orphan homes with an ugly stigma. With only a lone bachelor and a monogamous couple left, Short Creek's fields of hay and barley will parch under the hot Arizona...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: The New Morality | 1/7/1954 | See Source »

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