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Word: gardner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cinemactress Ava Gardner stepped from a plane at a Madrid airport, she played a supporting role to a fellow passenger: a timid-looking young man in a brown suit, yellow tie and outsized sun glasses. Ignoring the movie queen, a score of waiting dignitaries and cameramen rushed forward to greet ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who had arrived to pay his respects to Francisco Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...week were invited to follow a mystery serial that was improbable even by whodunit standards. The story, called The Ptomaine Canary, tells how a strapping Met soprano with ambitions as a detective-story writer tries to speed her literary success by drugging such established literary rivals as Erie Stanley Gardner, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler: she lures them into accepting dope-soaked birdseed held out to them by her trained canary, Galli-Curci. The soprano gets in trouble when one of her less celebrated victims unexpectedly dies. Despite its over-cute plot and slapdash style, the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murder at the Met? | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...basic technique was worked out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by a team including famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos and Dr. Gardner Middlebrook. Between 5 and 7 cc of blood (less than two teaspoons) are drawn from an arm vein. The serum (amber fluid) is separated from the cells and added to a specially treated preparation containing the red cells of sheep's blood. The mixture is kept at blood heat for two hours and then left at room temperature overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sharper Tool | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Patricia Partridge '53 of Cabot Hall and Gardner; Choral Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Government Elections Start Today | 3/14/1950 | See Source »

Dick Braisted and John Gardner were high scorers in the meet, registering 30 points in the B division of the competition. John Bishop, Pete Putnam, and Tom Carroll raced for the Crimson in the A division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Triumph | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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