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Word: phenomenons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julie Ann, 17, Catherine Jan, 14, and Colin Cameron, 6. Though Capp sometimes talks his wife into spending stretches of weeks in Manhattan, she is a woman "who gets sleepy at n o'clock" and pines for the New England countryside. Capp has mirrored his astonishment at this phenomenon by making her the model for a character named Moonbeam McSwine, a lovely girl but one who "likes to stay down on the farm with the hawgs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Half a million copies of this book have been ordered in advance of publication, a publishing phenomenon but no great surprise. To future generations, Picture History may be just what its title implies: to those who lived through World War II, it is a long reminder of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Embattled Moment | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...recognizable traces of Tallulah Bankhead, is volatile, egocentric and uninhibited, a great stage personality whose bitter anxiety over encroaching middle age blights both her career and her love affair with a younger director (Gary Merrill*). Eve's original well-meaning sponsor (Celeste Holm) is a hapless show-business phenomenon: as the non-professional wife of a successful playwright (Hugh Marlowe), she feels pangs of insecurity at having her husband dangled constantly before beautiful, designing females of the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...reason for this phenomenon is the fact that there will be an eclipse of the moon at 8:30 p.m. according to several newspaper science editors. Semi-documentary movies now being filmed on the moon are expected to halt operations during the blackout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earth Will Interrupt Sun-Moon Light Rays | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...specialized in rabbiting and who one day caught a black one. This, according to the story, he hastily brought home to his mistress, "clearly recognizing it was an unusual specimen"-and also hoping, no doubt, add the Lockridges, "that [she] would have an interesting explanation of the phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kit, Kit, Kit! | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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