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Word: ramona (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...champion. But for six years he has beaten all comers at 175 lbs. Three years ago in an unsuccessful bid for the heavyweight title, he knocked down Champion Rocky Marciano at an age when lesser fighters have long since gone into the bowling-alley business. On his ranch in Ramona, Calif. Moore keeps up a constant schedule of running, calisthenics and sparring to maintain fighting trim. Explains Archie: "I'm not a young colt any more. If I let go, it's a long way back; so I just stay ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triumph of the Relic | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Education: Scholarship boy who got through to his B.A. by selling sheet music and singing songs (most spc-cessful: Ramona) on the quais of Le Havre; became lycéee (high school) professor of English and Latin at industrial Arras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRENCH VISITOR | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Tony Martin's Dream Girls (RCA Victor). Most of the girls Tony Martin sings about in his butterscotch baritone (Rosalie, Diane, Sweet Sue, Ramona, etc.) have been around for a long time, but are still pleasant to hear about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Night, Irene | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...their wild state, polar bears and Alaskan brown bears do not mate. For one thing, polar bears live on arctic ice, brown bears on solid ground. They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ago, the animal experts did not expect much to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Bear Named Gene | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...propinquity and persistence eventually triumphed over zoology. Snow White and Ramona produced two litters of cubs, four of which lived. At first they were white like their father, later turned brown like their mother. As they grew into big bears, their color faded to a compromise buff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Bear Named Gene | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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