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Word: gravell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jeannine (Louis Armstrong and Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra; Decca). An oldtimer, given a Hollywood nightmare of swooping strings, burning trumpet and gravel-voiced singing. Indian Love Call, on the other side, is even more unbelievable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Gambler Frank Costello, who was convicted of contempt of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee (and promptly appealed), was sentenced by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan to 18 months and $5,000. Said Costello, in polite if gravel-voiced tones: "Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Social Notes | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...maintain it call the Alaska Highway "the best gravel road in the world." Since 1946, Canada has spent $26 million in straightening, widening, bridging and otherwise improving it. Winter and summer, some 300 workers grade and gravel every inch of its surface at least twice a week. The result: a road on which even trucks and heavy tourist trailers can do up to 500 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Out of the Ashcan | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...soon after she went to work for him. The war put the Davisons' airport out of business, and they had to start from scratch at something new. As Ann tells it, the Davison saga was a succession of failures strung on a theme of hard luck. They tried gravel quarrying, farming, raising purebred goats. When Ann said, "You know, Frank, I could do with some real gut stirring," her husband said, "So could I." That led to the Reliance - and an ordeal that lifts the final 100 pages or so of Last Voyage far above the commonplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two in a Boat | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...landslide in a gravel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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