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Word: pup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virus of distemper, which has saddened the heart of many a child by killing his pet pup, is the agent tested by Dr. John M. Adams of the University of California at Los Angeles. Nearly everybody has antibodies against distemper -surprising, because no human being is known to have caught distemper even from the sickest dog. Dr. Adams reasoned that perhaps the virus is close kin to one that causes human disease, contains the same antigen (antibody-stimulating component). He tried a safety-tested distemper vaccine against respiratory infections in a California institution, and it was a flop. But three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out, Damned Spots! | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Lovshin has a wife, a son (17), three daughters (15, 11, and 7). a pup, a cat and a parakeet (see cut). Says his wife: "Certainly I'm pooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Purr Usual? In Lansing, Mich., the State Journal ran a classified ad: "Beagle Pup Lost. Black and brown, 6 mos. old male, red collar, answers to 'kitty, kitty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...food ever since the late 1920s, when Gaines Meal first sold its dry mix of meat and grain and Ken-L-Ration produced a canned horsemeat mixture. More dogs are fed by the dry foods-Gaines (General Foods), Ralston Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Oh, for a Dog's Life | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...record, Elvis had the camp P.I.O. issue a denial that he and Anita would marry, then, in a grand finale to his eight weeks of basic training, loped off to the Fort Hood, Texas bivouac area for a hard week of marching and infantry maneuvers-and nights in a pup tent instead of evening passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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