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Word: lawns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed up the process, five truck plows, four sidewalk plows and a number of snow throwers are used. These latter contraptions are wheeled along like lawn mowers. They scoop up the snow and spit it out a chute along the side of the walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Show Men Can Tackle Any Bilizzard | 1/16/1951 | See Source »

This week the ranking committee of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association turned out its annual honor roll, and for the first time since 1930, when Johnny Doeg did it, a left-hander topped the list. He was taffy-haired Art Larsen, 25, ranked No. 6 a year ago but winner in 1950 of the national singles title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Left-Hander's Compliment | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...besides, what fraternity house has sheep on the front lawn anyway? Jim Gash, Cornell '52 Cornell Daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sees No Sex in 'Poon | 12/16/1950 | See Source »

Then he hits the jackpot. As his front lawn is piled high with cartons of soup, dressed beef, a grand piano, fruit trees and ponies, as a feline portrait painter (Patricia Medina) and a lacy interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) move in on him, Stewart plunges into a glassy-eyed nightmare that costs him his job, threatens his marriage, gets him clapped into jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Blade. In Memphis, careless Grass Cutter Lehman Barnes drove his power lawn mower into the street, ran into an automobile, was charged with reckless driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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