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Word: furness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last October, Jean Narcy, a road mender of Haute-Marne, France, was riding to work on his bicycle. In a wheat field he saw a little whiskered man just under 4 ft. tall, who wore a fur coat, an. orange corset and a plush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Martians over France | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...good guys on TV last week were, as usual, giving the bad guys their lumps. As millions of youngsters watched in beady-eyed fascination, Roy Rogers (with the help of Dale and Trigger) got the drop on some slow-witted fur thieves; Hopalong Cassidy (with help from his younger brother ) corralled a batch of badmen who had holed up in a gold mine; the Lone Ranger (with help from Tonto and his horse Silver) outwitted a pseudo-Englishman and won an inheritance which -naturally -he promptly donated to a worthy cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...richer by some $50,000 in cash and gifts such as a fur coat, furniture, vacation trips and a powder blue convertible. And she will probably escape taxes because she swam for "the honor of Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Water Baby | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Italy's Gina Lollobrigida chatted gaily with friends and admirers as she arrived for a showing of her newest film, Woman of Rome. She was dressed to show that, with her, first things come first: her silver evening gown had a deep V neck; a fluffy white-fox fur lightly covered her bare shoulders. When the picture was over, nearly everyone had to admit that it was pretty mediocre, but that Gina, in the part of a tough prostitute, had made mediocrity earthily interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...loaf. On the filmed They Live By, parents were briefed on how to answer such adolescent questions as "Where is God?" (the answer: "Everywhere"). Exploring God's World spent an agreeable half-hour exhibiting sea shells that were shaped like harps or striped like zebras or wore fur coats (to guard the shells against acids in Alaskan waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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