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Word: phoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erhard had taken himself to a Finnish sauna at a Black Forest resort last week to sweat off some of his 240 Ibs. in the steam bath and to be worked over by his masseur. The phone call was from Chancellor Adenauer in Bonn. Wrapping a towel around his midriff, the professor padded to a dressing-room telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Elevating the Pilot | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

There sat West Germany's roly-poly Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard being whipped with birch twigs when the phone rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Elevating the Pilot | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...position in the water suits her for the longer distances that are her specialty. Sylvia polishes off four full meals a day-breakfast, lunch (meat sandwich), after-school snack (steak sandwich) and dinner (a small steak). She has little interest in boys, does not indulge in teen-age phone chatter, explains, "I do not have the time to waste." Admits Mrs. Ruuska: "We are different from the average family, but we like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Water Sprite | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Winning by Phone. The Journal began to worry after it got a tip that the next prizewinner would be a chiropractor's wife. Sure enough. Mrs. Josephine Hill, a Portland chiropractor's wife, won $2,600, and finally told how she did it. Approached by a friend. Mrs. Hill agreed to have an entry submitted in her name-she did not even have to make it out. When it won. she banked $300 of the take and. as agreed, surrendered $2.300 to the friend-who turned it over to the fixer after subtracting $150 as an arranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fix Is the Word | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Dean Monro will break slightly with Harvard tradition in the near future when he moves into his "auxiliary quarters" in Adams House. For many years the Dean of the College has had a room in the Yard where he could go to avoid the continual press of phone calls, meetings and so forth, but Monro decided this year that he would have his quarters in a House, where he would be closer to the majority of the student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Acquires Office in Adams | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

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