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Word: mississippis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Striking evidence of the club's rapid comeback came out of a nationwide contest held last February. With teams from all over the country entered, the Wireless Club took fourth place and finished first among the groups entered east of the Mississippi. It contacted a total of 400 different stations in 38 states during the required 90 hour period...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: New Equipment Helps Wireless Club Communicate With Six Continents | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

...line with the trend towards bank mergers (92 in 1950), the board of directors of St. Louis' Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $413 million) last week voted to merge with the Mississippi Valley Trust Co. (assets: $250 million). The new bank will be known as the Mercantile Trust Co., will be the largest bank between Chicago and the Pacific Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Help Wanted | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI JACKSON, MISS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...cause. Whether McGee was guilty or not (and Mr. Luce seemed pretty sure that he was), it is hard to see how Life could so blithely overlook the fact that McGee's first two trials were so badly conducted that they not even satisfy the high court of Mississippi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life and Death | 5/23/1951 | See Source »

What his audiences got was a Mississippi Legend that mostly just kept rollin' along, smoothly and inevitably, but with few flash floods of emotion. Well sung by a Village Opera Company cast and chorus (no orchestra), Legend had its chief charm in its authentic blues. It was in the American idiom all right, but the score was all warp and no woof. Wolfe strung his ballads along one after the other, unadorned and undeveloped, with few bars to bind them together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Idiom | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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