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Word: floweredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the flowered streets of Matamoros' El Jardin district, there are so many new and luxurious houses that one awed American mumbled: "This is just what the South must have been like before the Civil War." But none of the houses is so spectacular as a palace, now abuilding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Big Five | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

The gambling spirit may be kept alive in the evening by another trip to Revere, this time to Wonderland, the greyhound track. But all the aging greyhounds look alike, and the rabbit wins every race, so Boston Dog racing is only a little more refined than a crap game.Almost anyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Lure Some Students to Soldiers Field; Others Pick Professionalism of Boston Arenas | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

For Robert Runnels Williams, the victory marks a climax in a 40-year war against beriberi which he began, as it happened, in the Philippines. At 24, an unknown research chemist in Manila's Bureau of Science, Williams noted that chronic beriberi was dramatically cured by an extract made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Down with Beriberi | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

Fidgeting to get back in harness, he celebrated the first sunshiny day of the week by breaking out one of the natty summer outfits he had brought down with him-dark blue shirt with white border, green worsted slacks, white buckskin shoes -and held the only press conference of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Clean House, with Termites | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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