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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thousands of foreigners will soon be learning English as it is spoken at Harvard. Under a grant from the Ford Foundation, the Language Research Center is producing a filmed course in Basic English here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basic English Course Filmed | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began to fold. By the time the Russians got to their first match in Chicago's International Amphitheater they should have been thoroughly bushed. But they were still more than a match for the seven U.S. strongmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Muscles from Moscow | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Many a company has helped along the restoration boom. New Jersey's Scandinavia Belting Co. still makes transmission linings for the Ford Model A and Model T. In the East, at least three major wheelwrights make wheels for the oldsters. Western Auto Supply. Sears. Roebuck and Montgomery Ward market parts for the Model T. Firestone Tire & Rubber sells several thousand antique tires a year, priced up to $67.55 each (for the Stanley Steamer and Stutz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Get a Stutz! | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...quality. The Classic Car Club recognizes only blue-blooded autos of "fine design, high engineering standards and superior workmanship." Regardless of age. it blackballs all Chevrolets, Plymouths. Xashes. Dodges, Pontiacs, Buicks. Oldsmobiles and De Sotos. even turns down some Cadillac models. Recently the club even refused to admit Ford's modern Continental Mark II as a "classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Get a Stutz! | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Last year, they travelled to India on a Ford Grant to evaluate the success of parliamentary democracy there. "We drove overland from London," said Lloyd. "It took about a month, but you have a better perspective on India after seeing the Middle East...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Peaceful Division | 5/20/1958 | See Source »

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