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Word: flea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sport Editor Leiser apologized and dutifully sang LeBaron's praises. Four days later the Chronicle ran a Page One editorial calling for a game between mighty California and little Pacific. California, its sights set on the Rose Bowl, shrugged off the idea like a bear shrugging off a flea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Flea & the Bear | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...Paris flea market, Fleur Fenton Cowles once bought a golden pin shaped like a swallow's wing, which she thought "a symbol of flight, excitement, beauty." Last week, as Fleur's new monthly magazine Flair spread its wings, a reproduction of the pin adorned its bright scarlet cover. To Editor Cowles, it was a moment of high excitement and typographical beauty. But more dispassionate observers considered the maiden flight hardly as breathtaking as all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Girl with Roses | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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