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

...understand. Example: A line on one of the entries in the second race at Florida's Tropical Park one day last week carried this report on Stormy Ruth, a two-year-old bay filly by Little Beans-Witchwater, by St. James, bred by J. Tucci, trained by M. Fife: "23Jy 51-1 Jm fst 5½ f .23 .471/5 1.06 3/5 Cl. $6500 3 3 1 3 3 4 9 17" The knowing reader's translation: On July 23rd, Stormy Ruth ran in the first race at Jamaica, a $6500 claimer, five and a half furlongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Vet's List | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...with puppets on strings waltzing around behind counter, basking in awed glances of little girls. Stuffed clowns sail by over head, hanging from stuffed oranges. Mechanical elephant nine feet high waves trunk in front of my face. Little man with red face tooting "Jingle Bells" on plastic fife...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/15/1951 | See Source »

...drinking and dancing until midnight are in order. For nice people there are the Shelton Roof for dancing, and the Copley-Plaza's Oval Room for drinking. The Latin Quarter features Lena Horne, while any college man with enough drinks in him gives the performance at the Vendome's Fife and Drum Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON BOUNTIFUL IN SHOWS, SPOTS | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...Foundation or other philanthropic institutions in the U.S. (or the members of Congress) may have been impressed by the Third's astonishingly low budget. Two million dollars (or $10 million if it would take that in the U.S.) could be spent in no way more enriching to American fife than to provide us with a year of an American Third. GEORGE B. MUNROE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...exercise are open to the public and will be preceded by a business meeting of th chapter in Harvard Hall at 10 a. m. The members will then march to Sanders Theatre in a traditional procession, led by fife and drum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perry Addresses Phi Beta Kappa Exercises Today | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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