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Word: seales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sons For a Nation. As the Koran allows, he took wives in rapid succession, perhaps 140 in all, but never more than the permissible four at one time, to seal bargains, make alliances and produce sons. There came 40 sons and an estimated 64 daughters (girls are not counted officially). "In my youth and manhood, I made a nation," he once said. "Now, in my declining years, I make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: King of the Desert | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...Living Desert (Walt Disney) looks like the start of a grand-scale attempt to seduce Mother Nature with a motion-picture camera. Having handsomely reached first base with a few short sorties into the animal kingdom (Beaver Valley, Seal Island, Water Birds, Olympic Elk, Bear Country), Walt Disney has apparently decided to invite the whole creation to go commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Genoa has long abided by the fiddler's will. Every year the mayor, the community's secretary general, a museum official and a notary public gather around the glass case, solemnly break the seal and lift the violin out for an annual tuning and workout. In latter years, a distinguished violinist has been invited to do the job. This year Genoa took out some extra Paganini memorabilia, asked French Violinist Zino Francescatti to give the Guarneri its annual tuning. Perhaps because Francescatti is Paganini's lineal musical descendant (his father studied with Paganini's only real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fiddler's Will | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Library Keeper" Bears Seal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inauguration to Follow Simple Rite Used in 1707 Leverett Installation | 10/13/1953 | See Source »

Following Reynolds will be Keyes D. Metcalf, director of Widener Library, who will bear the Charter, the Seal, and the Record Books. The "Library Keeper" performed this same function...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inauguration to Follow Simple Rite Used in 1707 Leverett Installation | 10/13/1953 | See Source »

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