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Word: lode (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincente Minelli's brisk direction and another topnotch Tracy performance keep the humanity and the fun intact. Admirers of Father of the Bride will not be let down; all they have to fear now is that M-G-M will be tempted to go on working its father lode until the ore thins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 23, 1951 | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...late 1860s, two things were sure to make San Franciscans sit up and take notice. One was easy gold, the other an acid writing man named Ambrose Bierce. The easy gold was usually illusory, but Bierce went on tapping a virgin lode of venom that lasted 40-odd years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nothing Matters | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Forgotten Lode. In Salida, Colo., American Legionnaires, gleeful over the discovery of radioactive ore in the fireplace of their post, stopped crowing when they were reminded that they did not know where the rocks had come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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