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Word: meerschaum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...purchasers, David P. Ehrlich Co. of Boston, intend to sell Leavitt's special Cake Box tobacco, 125 brands of cigarettes, and Algerian and Meerschaum pipes, in addition to their own State House and Boston Common mixtures which date back to the days when the Common was the only public place where smoking was allowed in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leavitt and Peirce Changes Hands, but Old Traditions Stay | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

While the youngsters sipped Cokes, the judges hastily collected 37 more heavy-caliber surprises. Diana and Colquitt went through them all (including meticulosity, syzygy, prorogue, frondesce, cincture, heliotaxis, ectogenous, meerschaum) without a slip. With everybody feeling that honor had been more than satisfied, the judges thereupon declared a draw, the first in the Bee's history. To Winners Diana and Colquitt went twin sets of prizes: $500 checks, trips to New York, gold National Bee emblems set with rubies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gnarled with a K | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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