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Word: oneida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calculated Delay. In Oneida, N.Y., state police watched Truck Driver Francis Gorman deliver four new patrol cars to their barracks, then nabbed him for driving without a chauffeur's license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Pulling Power. In Wampsville, N.Y., attendance at the Presbyterian Church tripled after someone unknown to the church elders placed an ad in the Oneida Dispatch: "Wanted: men, women and children to sit in slightly used pews, Sunday mornings, Wampsville Presbyterian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...farmer at Whitney (southern) Idaho, where Ezra was born. As the middle name indicates, he is a remote relative of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. Said Benson: "We have a common ancestral progenitor about six generations back. My great-great-grandmother was a Taft." Benson attended Oneida Stake Academy (Mormon) at Preston, Idaho and the Utah State Agricultural College, got his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1926, a master of science degree in agricultural economics from the University of Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Administration: Secretary of Agriculture | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Family Reunion. In Oneida, N.Y., Lewis Eaton was severely jolted when his parked car was hit in the rear by another driven by his daughter, Bertha, was jolted again when Bertha's car was hit by another driven by his son, Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Nothing very much happens to the Massines. Aunt Oneida suffers as her ancient bull terrier, Madame X, slowly dies, but Aunt Oneida soon has a new dog to fondle. Other Massines hang around their city apartments and summer home, chattering about the past, themselves and their dogs. The best of them, 33-year-old Edward, a kindly fellow of no particular occupation, startles the family by marrying an actress. This kind of thing is just what the Massines need, Novelist Stead implies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brownstone Relics | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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