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Word: fran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Garroway Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Kukla, Fran and Ollie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Gold! It's Gold!" Flaubert's simpletons are a Mutt & Jeff pair. François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard is fat and gay, Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet thin and dour. When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables." Pan and brush in hand, Pécuchet tramps the roads for fertilizer. When others contemptuously hold their noses, Bouvard cries, "But it's gold! It's gold!" Too much "gold" burns out the strawberry patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Mutt & Jeff | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Penn, with a nine and four league record, will play forwards Joe Sturgis and Dick Heylmun, center Bart Leach, and guards Karl Hoagland and Fran Mulroy. The Quakers lost a chance to tie for first place in the league Saturday by losing, 57 to 56, to Cornell at Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Quintet Plays Penn After Yale Loss | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...class Canning drew blood from Ken Williamson of Adams, while Fran Ingoldsby of Dunster and Ed Carey of Winthrop won their matches by decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boxing Continues In House Tourney | 3/4/1954 | See Source »

...made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath on the papal nuncio to France as one "who wields on French soil more power than that of any member of the government." Mauriac blamed the situation on the separation of church and state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Question of Authority | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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