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Word: gathers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their peak of emotion is what Richdale calls "the ecstatic." They stand close together, flapping their flippers wildly, twining their necks and "trumpeting" loudly, while juvenile penguins gather around to watch the ceremony. Among mammals or less seemly birds, such behavior might lead forthwith to sexual intercourse. But not among the penguins. After the extensive ceremonies of courtship, both birds sink down exhausted, as if the demands of the preliminaries had drained their strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Proper Penguins | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...might guess, it's difficult to keep things going in the little out-of-the-way shack where they all gather. One of the bandits in a pretty sadistic character who chases Sue and takes pot shots at the little baby. But the bad men finally are killed. And all in all, "Rawhide" is pretty good fun, although it may tire non-devotees of the horse opera...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

Following the tour, the reunioning classes will gather in the quadrangle of the Medical School for a buffet luncheon and two symposia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Med School Classes Will Hold Reunions Today | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

...years after the war, President Truman sent him back to the Far East to gather information on Communist strength in China and Korea. The result was the now famous "Wedemeyer Report," which, if followed out, might have changed the course of history. His old friend, George Marshall, personally suppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Old Soldier Retires | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...most of Five, filmed on a shoestring by Producer-Scripter-Director Arch Oboler, takes place in Oboler's own modernistic eyrie in California's Santa Monica mountains, where the survivors happen to gather from as far away as Mt. Everest and the Empire State Building. Five's intriguing premise, which sorely lacks either dialogue by George Bernard Shaw or the imagination of H. G. Wells, leaves Radio-writer Arch Oboler with his limitations showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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