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Word: lura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican as Vermont and twice as tough. Charlie's father. Lawyer Abraham Halleck * was a two-term Republican state senator who preached Republicanism as gospel. But if his party faith is a legacy from Father Abraham. Charlie Halleck inherited his energy and ambition from his mother, Lura ("Birdie") Halleck, a remarkable woman who taught herself to type legal abstracts, ran Abraham's law office, drove the family's National, managed an eleven-room house, and raised a brood of five children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Gut Fighter | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

According to their neighbors, the six Arizona wives also go from door to door in their spare time selling homemade layettes and spectacle-cleaning tissues. But even after jailing Hilda Dutson, 46, Arline Dutson, 48, Hazel Dutson, 55, Lura Dutson, 44, Sara Dutson, 43, and Anna Dutson, 33, the local law didn't have too much hope of catching their lord & master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The More the Merrier | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Profits from bestsellers help to finance deserving books for a highly specialized reader. Poetry books, such as Theodore Spencer's "An Acre in the Seed," do well to sell 1000 copies. Technical hooks that are expensive to produce, as "Early New England Potters and Their Wares" by Lura Woodside Watkins, must have a high retail price. Some of them are subsidized as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press Provides Scholars With Agency To Publish Quality Works for Limited Audiences | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

...render were not one. Johnson sang a number popular in 1890, after the football team of that season had defeated Yale for the first time in 14 years. Isenberg removed his violin from its case, only to discover that the melody Johnson was working on was not "Tura lura lura...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

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