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Word: gold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints her fingernails and toenails to match, wears her thick hair usually in a chignon. Her voice is full, throaty and resonant. She speaks fluent French, is less sure of her English, chain-smokes Kool cigarettes in a long, gold holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOSLEM WORLD: Beyond the Veil | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...youngest child is only two) turned 70. To honor him, colleagues had established the Ylppo Award, to be given every five years to pediatricians for special achievements. Ylppo himself was a tiny, inconspicuous figure among the frock-coated dignitaries in the great hall of Helsinki University as the Ylppo gold medal was bestowed on Harvard's Professor Clement Smith, outstanding researcher into the breathing mechanism of the newborn (he advises against spanking them). Said Disciple Smith: "It is often stated that Arvo Ylppo invented the premature baby. I doubt this, but it certainly was fortunate for premature infants that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Archiater to Preemies | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...stage. Painter Eugene Berman, in many ways the star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dazzling Don | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...House soccer yesterday, Adams pulled to within one point of second place by squeaking past Dunster 1-0. The Gold Coasters consistently outplayed the Funsters, with Charlie Taylor scoring the game's only goal. In the other game, Leverett won a default over Dudley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Upsets Dudley for First Win; Adams Defeats Dunster in Soccer | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...return to Nassau. He married in 1909 and was divorced in 1912. In emulation of his then favorite authors--London, Kipling, and Conrad--he embarked on a gold-prospecting trip to Honduras...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

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