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Word: epsom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...remove the high polish from cars and furniture, spray with clear liquid wax; to take the glare from mirrors, apply a mixture of epsom salts and stale beer; such shiny surfaces as oilcloth can be toned down with a spray of shaving lotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gilded Lilies | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...customary birthday luncheon. All in all, it was a busy week. A few days before her birthday, she showed up at the Chelsea Flower Show at Royal Hospital, was helped across a muddy stream (see cut). The day after her busy birthday, she took in the Derby at Epsom Downs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: A Ringing in the Ears | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Also at Epsom Downs, not yet recovered from his fall in a Swiss skiing accident last winter, Prince Aly Khan appeared on crutches to watch the Derby. In London, his wife, Cinemactress Rita

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: A Ringing in the Ears | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...coal-black Noor arrived in the U.S. two years ago, most of the cards were stacked against him. The Irish-bred three-year-old had to get used to running on dirt tracks, instead of the springy turf he raced over in England when he finished third in the Epsom Derby. Besides that, the colt had a bad ankle, which kept him on the shelf for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Beauty | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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