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Word: flowerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chartwell grounds with the larvae of Painted Ladies.) Biggest satisfaction of all: Hugh's five-year-old son is already mastering the fine points of the game -"The stealthy approach, net bag between finger and thumb, the gradual moving closer and closer to the butterfly sitting on a flower head with wings outspread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Butterfly Farmer | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Constanze, which soon hit a circulation of 500,000, and Der Spiegel, a weekly news magazine. In 1948 Springer jumped into the daily newspaper field and made Hamburg's politically independent Abendblatt a leader in north Germany, thanks to his bag of circulation tricks (e.g., giving hundreds of flower bulbs to Hamburg children, organizing contests among radio hams and carrier-pigeon breeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Germany's Press Lord | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...74th birthday by holding his first art show. On the gallery walls were 49 delicately-colored scenes of Italy and Southern France that would have done a professional credit: airy, back-lighted town vistas, views of Venice and the Riviera, mountain terraces dipping into lush valleys, richly colored flower markets flooded with sunlight. The critics cheered Emanuel's taste, finesse and remarkable craftsmanship. Said one: "He really has the painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Birth of a Painter | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...save for a few absurdities, Spring and Summer fashions would escape the malediction hurled by the fellow who himself wore flowing green silk neckties, a green velvet jacket and knee-breeches, and who strolled around London with "a flower or a lily clutched in his medieval hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Garments Use Cotton, Denim | 5/1/1953 | See Source »

...department-store floorwalker saw her slip two articles under her dress was unburdened of: a sack of candy, two billfolds, a raincoat, a boy's shirt, two brassieres, five pairs of ladies' hose, a jar of deodorant, a tube of toothpaste, two pints of paint, two flower bulbs, four packages of flower and vegetable seeds, three packages of buckshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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