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Word: nods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third round, those who thought the amateurs were only along for the ride began to nod knowingly. Amateur Patton, spraying shots, had a 75 and dropped into a tie for third. Hogan and Snead, playing careful, methodical golf, moved into first and second, three strokes apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Men & a Boy | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...returns to his home town for a week or so to help the old folks get the house repaired. Novelist Brooks uses this slender and unpromising pretext to merge past and present in a way that would make that old master of the flashback, John Marquand, nod with approval. Tom's ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You Can't Go Home Again | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...Britain, bonnie Prince Charles, 5, without half trying, won the nod from the trade journal Tailor and Cutter as the world's best-dressed gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Friday morning, the Army's report broke (leaked first by a Democrat, whom the Army had thoughtfully provided with a copy). By noon, without so much as a nod to the rest of the committee, McCarthy and Roy held their press conference, and they released "the other side of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Self-Inflated Target | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Research experts pushed out another eye-opening original experiment in the field of Biology. Stanley Miler and Harold Usey received the nod for their study dealing with the synthesis of anime-acids in considerable quanities by the passage of an electric spark through a mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water. This awesome experiment appears to be the first demonstration of the production of organic building blocks from inorganic molecules. "Critically significant," says Carrol Williams, professor of Biology, "because it is the first experiment as to how much complicated molecules required for the evolution of life came into being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Discloses 1953 Was Big Year For Intellectuals; Events Include Fakes, Finds | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

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