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Word: morrises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bankers, poets, conductors and even femmes fatales have shown that careers need not be over at 60. Last week the fact was emphasized again by two elderly ladies who kicked up their heels with the enthusiasm of dancers a third their age. ¶ In the Hollywood Bowl Ruth St. Denis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ice Age, Stone Age | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

In 1918, when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tarzan Dives Again | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Reporter Russell was not impressed. "The Government appears to be helplessly drifting with the current of events," he wrote, "having neither bow nor stern, neither keel nor deck, neither rudder, compass, sails nor steam." In the seceding Southern states, where he was greeted as a friend and potential ally, Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Civil War Reporter | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

CIGARETTE-SMOKING in the first quarter of 1954 was down 5% from last year. Philip Morris & Co. predicts 3% to 5% drop in unit cigarette sales for all of 1954, but dollar sales "almost equal to the industry's best year (1953)."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Shortly after receving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Borgmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep-Udaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review Board Reverses Committee on Novikoff | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

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