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Word: sey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Substituting his judicial robes for a wrap-around of grandchildren, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Campbell Clark, 59, took his uneasy ease in a swimming pool in Dallas, where he was vacationing. Two of the kids, Tom, 5, and Ronda. 7, are children of William Ram sey Clark; the other nipper, eye-gouging Gail, 4, is the daughter of Justice Clark's daughter Mildred ("Mimi") Gronlund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Stephen A. Aaron followed with the Ivy Oration, in which he revealed that the setter of the Mem Hall fire was really Cesare D. Balzotti, "agent provocateur for Mr. Vellucci," discovered to be Ming Emperor Sey-Pu, whose name, unscrambled, might be easily recognized...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Overcast Skies, Anxious Parents Greet '57 Class Day Ceremonies | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...Garden State" of New Jersey (pronounced Goddan State of New J-eh-sey) boasts some of the most remarkably unsylvan areas east of the city dump at Gary, Ind. Its smoke-hung Hudson shore is littered, mile on dreary mile, with dingy factories, junkyards, piers, abattoirs, disconsolate old houses and drafty barrooms. When the wind is right, the indescribable perfume of some of the world's most thoroughly fermented tidal flats profanes the air. Jersey politics-a hatchery for grasping bosses-rests in this setting as comfortably as a bloated grapefruit floating in a sump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Grapefruit in the Garden State | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...with Ted Husing's broadcasts of Army football games. For hours when there are no sports to broadcast, Liberty has already started a musical giveaway show and a series called Great Days in Sport, in which McLendon will re-create such highlights of the past as the Demp-sey-Firpo fight and the spectacular games of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Old Scotchman | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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