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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano, spank himself, do cartwheels, raise his arms when he wants to be taken to the bathroom, and perform numerous other monkeyshines, including raising TV ratings. He is also the only TV personality on earth who has been denounced in the House of Commons ("an insult to the Queen"), attacked in Izvestia ("a symbol of the American way of life") and defended by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ("We've recommended that nobody touch him when he's on camera"). Not only did his presence once prompt ex-King Farouk to stalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goodbye, Mr.Chimp | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...estimated 10% gain for dailies. Said W.N.R.'s Eastern Sales Manager Robert Moore: "The weekly editor used to sit on a porch whittling a pencil. Today he's more apt to be worried the Cadillac will get scratched when it's loaded on the Queen Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Country Slickers | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

When a swarm of bees separates from an established colony, it does not go at once to a new home. Most swarms settle on a bush or tree, and form themselves into buzzing balls with the queen in the center. After hours or days of debating, the swarm makes up its collective mind and flies to a suitable cranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Town Meeting of the Bees | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Aphrodite, The mourning Isis and the queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Life & Death | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Appointed in the Economics Department, John Johnston specializes in the application of statistical methods. He graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, in 1947 with a Gold Medallion in Economic Theory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Bundy Names Five Ass't Professors | 1/30/1957 | See Source »

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