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Word: eggs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the University's ever-growing collection of dinosaur eggs will arrive from Paris by air today. Weighing 20 pounds, the egg is a gift from the French city of Aix-En-Provence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French City Sends Egg | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

After the object gets through the U.S. Customs' examination on Monday, Dr. A. S. Romer, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which will be the egg's resting place, will examine it and release information on its exact size and paleological significance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French City Sends Egg | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

...Black Egg. Naturaly this does not endear little Benjy to the dirty-fingernail set in the schoolyard, but Benjy has his reward when his Good Fairy shows up. An offbeat sort decked in a baseball uniform and chomping an outsize cigar, this Good Fairy grants Benjy's only wish that "whatever big and marvelous things happen to little Benjy . . . will happen to his dear Mummy, too!" Months pass, and nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Curley fo Curlylocks | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which he abandoned in the cellars and closets of his friends. Surviving on handouts and "air, selfesteem, cigarette butts, cowboy [black, no sugar] coffee, fried-egg sandwiches and ketchup," frail (5 ft. 4 in., about 95 Ibs.) Joe Gould sold (for a drink) entertainment (lectures, poetry recitals, epithets) to any willing bar patron. Gould had no known relatives but many friends, including Poet E. E. Cummings, Artist Don Freeman, Writers Malcolm Cowley and William Saroyan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Some of the people who poured into the synagogue for its dedication thought the building looked like a broken egg. But Manhattan Rabbi Israel Goldstein, whose own synagogue is richly ornamented, attended the dedication and took Rau's side. He found the temple "very conducive to prayer. I believe it will be imitated. It is simply beautiful-using the words literally-and its modesty is right, in a country which is both modest and austere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jerusalem's New Temple | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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