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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia got a head start on the others, and has already sold more than 1,000,000 copies to U.S. dealers. This makes something of an overnight national musical figure out of Columbia's vocalist: a twelve-year-old freckle-patch named Jimmy Boyd, of Van Nuys, Calif., who has had his own radio program in Los Angeles and is a veteran of five years in show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Holy Night, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...North Dakota's wheat and cattle plains, flaming gas flares from 69 Amerada wells stabbed the night sky. The land that had been a dust bowl only 20 years ago was now an El Dorado to many farmers who had been on relief or working for WPA. Overnight, they had become wealthy. Last week the big opportunity had come for Farmer Lewis M. Osborn...

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

Land reform cannot be an overnight panacea for Egypt's maladies, said Richard N. Frye, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies. He predicted that if the nation's powerful landlords fail to reach terms with General Naguib they may resort to bribing army officers or even assassination to block this reform...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Frye Sees Coup d'Etat Attempt At Naguib by Egypt's Landlords | 11/29/1952 | See Source »

...park all night, then I get angry. But so far, they've been pretty good down on Plympton Street. The places where we have trouble are Holyoke and Dunster Streets, running from Mount Auburn down to the Houses. They always seem to be packed with cars that are parked overnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Open Drive Monday to Stop All-Night Parking | 11/26/1952 | See Source »

...need it. But I really do need it, Mother dear . . ."), and took part in impromptu student prayer meetings. In her senior year, Edna almost lost the right to sit with her class on commencement day; she had slipped away from college for too many overnight stays. But "the class made such a fuss" that the authorities let her don cap & gown with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mostly a Maine Girl | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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