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Word: leafed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sight & Sound. First there was a private talk with Commander in Chief Harry Truman at the White House, then a nostalgic trip aboard the President's private train to West Point's 150th anniversary ceremony (where Ridgway got his second oak leaf cluster to his Distinguished Service Medal). At midweek he disappeared behind the closed doors of the Senate Armed Services Committee, later went on to Fort McNair for a special military review and reception. Next day, trim in his suntans, he addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Twenty-four hours later he spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Man in Mid-Passage | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...Lang, Leaf & Myers, who wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homer for Moderns | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Capital of the Bluegrass is the city of Lexington (pop. 55,000). It has the largest Burley leaf tobacco market in the world, carries on a thriving business in cattle and sheep, and is the home of the University of Kentucky and Transylvania College. Its No. 1 business, nevertheless, is the breed ing, raising, selling and racing of thorough breds (as early as 1782 there were "race paths" around Lexington). Standard-bred trotters and pacers and the American saddle horse are also raised here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLUEGRASS IN BLOOM: BLUEGRASS IN BLOOM | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...woman is sitting on the grass, a racing form over her shoulders. She's picking a leaf off a rose...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

...Lawn- "the bright and cheerful private slumber rooms ... the beautiful vistas of green lawns and tall trees"-reinforces the theology.* But Dr. (honorary LL.D.) Eaton, who has already stocked his cemetery with a trove of religious paintings and statuary (including a replica of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added), has not found a picture of Christ that looks happy enough to go with his convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wanted: the American Smile | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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