Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most likely candidate as proprietor of the pebble culture was Australopithecus prometheus, a smallish, erect-walking creature whose brain was just big enough to equip him intellectually as a maker of tools. Prometheus was plentiful in the Makapan region, but his remains had never been found with pebble tools...
That winter many members of the class attended the trial of bookshop proprietor James A. DeLacey who had been charged with selling a prohibited book at his student news stand. The novel was D. H. Lawrence's latest, "Lady Chatterly's Lover...
...time; they buy stocks when prices are high and sell when prices fall. But in recent years, market experts who have taken pains to study the actions of the little investor think that the old saw is wrong. One such expert is Boston's Garfield A. Drew, proprietor of an investment advisory service, who has traced odd-lot transactions back...
...face it," says Goodie. "I never forgot about being governor." In 1924, as a promising young lawyer and the proprietor of a Stutz Bearcat, Goodie met Arvilla Cooley, a dazzling blonde, at a dinner dance in Santa Monica. A year later they were married, and in due course Goodie became the doting father of two more dazzling blondes, Marilyn and Carolyn. Goodie, a mellow and indulgent parent, was surprised when he occasionally struck flint in his daughters' dispositions. When Carolyn was a student at U.S.C., he was curious to know why she had not joined a sorority. "Unlike...
...make a rendezvous with fission only brought out the essential pluck of the network newscasters. CBS's Charles Collingwood tried hard to keep his end up by filling in with a telecast from Las Vegas where, amid the clatter of one-armed bandits, he solemnly asked the proprietor of The Sands Hotel if he was used to A-blasts (he was). NBC's Dave Garroway was reported by his mates on the Today show as having dug his own trench out in Yucca Flat. Meanwhile, the desperate networks kept rerunning film of the target area until the tall...