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Word: elms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge Public Works officials said that local damage was limited to 15 felled elm trees that blocked traffic in the outlying regions of the city for only a few hours. Plugged highway drains and flooded cellars were also reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Storm Causes Slight Local Damage | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Tibet." All Producer Milgrim wanted to do was to persuade Manley Halliday, the famous novelist of the '20s whom he had picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical he was assigned to script, and let some of the old collegiate sap rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bottom of the Glass | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...news vendor known as "Jerry" is reported to have a monopoly on the publication. His stand is located on Elm Street, directly in front of the New Haven Railroad Station, and observers estimated that he sold over 500 copies of the issue on the first day it reached the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pontoons Sell Quickly In New Haven; Copies Cost Half-Dollar Each | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...replace the late Harvey D. Gibson as president of the Manufacturers Trust Co., directors chose big, white-thatched Henry C. von Elm, 62, longtime banker and chairman of Manufacturers since 1947. Von Elm, who has charmed even the most ornery stockholders by his suave conduct of the bank's annual meetings, was succeeded as chairman by Horace C. Flanigan, 59, who moved up from vice chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What? No Slapstick? | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Cold Cash. In Yonkers, N.Y., a thief broke into the Elm Superette Market, stole the $8 he found in the cash register and the $263 he found in the refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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