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Word: kirks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made public at a probate hearing, totaled only a paltry $854,000, almost all of it in real estate and securities. Many a Chicagoan was still positive that Ed had been a millionaire, and their authority was none other than Ed's pretty, diamond-studded widow, Mrs. Margaret Kirk Kelly. Somebody, she said, had gotten into Ed's cash after he died and carried bundles of it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treasure Hunt | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Annual events such as the Jubilee (this weekend), the Lowell and Kirk-(this weekend), the Lowell and Adams House dinners and dances. and usually preceded by numerous merry cocktail parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Dances and Senior Spread Are Big Social Events Still Ahead | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

Scratch-Happy. Because he reckoned that "cows know where they itch," Cattleman Bill Kirk designed a pest-killer which any range animal can apply to itself. "Old Scratch" is a flexible steel cable, strung with hundreds of steel washers, lubricated by a reservoir of oil-insecticide. The cow just rubs against Old Scratch, is automatically smeared with bug-killer, made happier, puts on weight faster as a result. Kirk, who started out with 11? in capital last year, has already shipped 4,500 models of Old Scratch to ranchers. Price: $198.50 f.o.b. Amarillo, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Kirk Hollingsworth, Nate Carleton, John Glessner, Roger Hunt, and John Sears will play for the Eliot squad in their usual spots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Wins A-Squash Crown; Kirkland First in Basketball | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

...Thomas Kirk Cureton is a man of 49 who says he feels 35. It is no idle boast. He can prove it with physical-fitness tests in which he ranks consistently next to Track Stars Gil Dodds, 32, and Craig Dixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vigorous Middle Age | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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