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Word: mollusk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zachary Scott manages to convey Orsino's melancholy, but more by appearance and manner than by speech. And he has the pleasure of being wheeled about in a handsome mollusk-shell chariot. Patricia Cutts is a soft Olivia, in love with mourning and "of beauty truly blent" as the mistress of an enormous household...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

...Segal's first zoological work was with the limpet, a small saltwater mollusk, but when he got to Emporia, he turned over a stone and found a slug. It was love at first sight. He took the slug back to the lab and eagerly collected company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Slug Time | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Kramer's recipe is to pick up a story shell of mollusk-like simplicity and crack it open almost raw to lay bare the flesh beneath. In Champion (1949), his hero was a heel who could hit, and would hit anybody to get to the top; in High Noon (1952), a lawman alone against four avenging gunslingers. The Defiant Ones, in terms of its plot, is equally spare: two men escape from a Southern chain gang and are hunted down by a sheriff and his posse. But from a stark, grimly witty script by Movie Newcomers Nathan E. Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

This hierarchy of mollusk men is not the least of the wonders hidden among the pages of the University Directory. The careful reader will note that Philip T. Darlington is Curator of Recent Insects and James C. Greenway is Curator of Birds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curators for Mollusks, Reptiles Lurk Among University Faculty | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...years ago, studying water temperatures off Lower California, he camped at Santo Tomas, and with a true scientist's curiosity about things that did not directly concern him, he dug into an ancient Indian camp site and turned up the shell of a cryptochiton, a large, limpet-like mollusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossil Climate | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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