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Word: lydia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huge fortress walls protecting the citadel of Sardis, capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, have been reported by a Cornell-Harvard archeological group exploring the site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fortifications Found At Sardis Excavation | 8/11/1960 | See Source »

Scout and her brother live in Maycomb, Alabama, where every family that amounts to anything has a streak-a peculiar streak, or a morbid streak, or one involving a little ladylike tippling at Lydia Pinkham bottles filled with gin. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious -it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: About Life & Little Girls | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Divorced. John Robert Russell, 42, the 13th Duke of Bedford, who opened his 3,000-acre Woburn Abbey estate to the public (including nudists, on a strictly rental basis) to pay his taxes; by Lydia Yarde-Buller, 42, aunt of the Aga Khan; after 13 years of marriage, one son; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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