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Word: frown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added many a new refinement to oldtime favor ites. There are Humpty Dumpties for a dime, giant elephants for more than $100, Teddy bears, now celebrating their 50th anniversary, that are chemically treated to keep them free of dust. Dolls do just about everything (eat, burp, nibble fin gers, frown, pucker lips, blow soap bubbles, wet, wail, walk, and recite verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Christmas Stocking | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...ultimate frown in an age of frowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RADCLIFFE GIRL | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

Reminded that New York times sports writer Arthur Daley had picked Columbia for seventh in the Ivy League, Little chuckled for a moment, paused, then assumed a frown. "There are only eight teams in the League, you know Gracious me, we're not the team...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

From the American Statistical Association committee, which has been fine-tooth-combing his research methods, Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey drew a nod tempered by a mild frown. Rating Kinsey's approach as "superior" to "other leading sex studies," the committee still had a few reservations about the "highly precise conclusions [he boldly drew] from the limited samples." Also, even though the doctor's own figures didn't lie, the statisticians wondered about his interviewees, some of whom were possibly afflicted with "inaccuracies of memory." The committee suspects that the variable human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...quick smile turned to a frown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Arizonians | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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