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Word: penned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year will be his first as a starter. While surpassing Giant Ace Adams pre-Mexico record of 70 relief performances, Jim won 16, lost seven, and became the odds-on favorite for the league's Most Valuable Player. But before Sawyer deposited him permanently in the bull-pen, Konstanty was, generously speaking...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

...Chicago, the Argonne National Laboratory perfected a new radiation-detector which is smaller than a cigarette, weighs only a quarter of an ounce, can be worn on clothing like a fountain pen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: March of Progress | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...officials (TIME, Oct. 24). If the Supreme Court justices follow where Medina and Hand have led -and their recent decision upholding the Taft-Hartley non-Communist oath indicates they will-the eleven will be fined $10,000 each and carted off to serve up to five years in the pen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: When the Time Is Ripe | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Unanimously approved a bill easing the President's pen & ink routine (300 signatures a day), permitting his aides to read and sign for him such housekeeping details as letters, orders and directives to departments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hold Up a Minute | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke petitioned the township of Hillsborough, NJ. for the right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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