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Word: osborne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Osborn, Yale '28, supplied his own captions for this game of "Pick Your President." He invites students to place their favorite head on top of the standard 1953 presidential body. This is the latest entry in the scientific series on the identity of Harvard's next president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Pick Your President' by R. Osborn | 3/26/1953 | See Source »

...pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required to parade up & down in front of a crowd with a lot of other dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Dog's Life | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...News, itself, has contributed a bold and pleasing make-up and a running commentary, which is little more than enlogistic. Some clever, original cartoons by Robert Osborn brighten up the sometimes dingy copy. All in all, Seventy-five, combines the dull with the interesting; it is a monumental work of its kind...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Seventy-Five | 2/10/1953 | See Source »

...Paul Osborn's adaptation of Lawrence Watkin's novel appeared on Broadway a number of years back. It is an amiable bit of nonsense with nothing much to say and very little purpose other than to amuse audiences. At this it succeeds. I should say it succeeds mainly because it brings Moore back to the theatre...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: On Borrowed Time | 1/29/1953 | See Source »

Working day & night, Amerada's drillers had driven a three-cone rotary rock-bit deeper & deeper into the earth of Osborn's farm. The rig's platform throbbed with the clanking rumble of a diesel engine spinning the drill. As the drill bit down into the earth, new lengths of 60-ft. pipe were threaded on to join the mile-and-a-half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Great Hunter | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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