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Word: sid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sid Richardson of Fort Worth. Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SEVEN BIG TEXANS | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...energetic Detroit Red Wings were obviously the class of big-time hockey. Sharpshooting Left Wing Ted Lindsay was the National Hockey League's leading scorer and Center Forward Sid Abel was runner-up. With such fire-power the Red Wings boomed past the mid-season mark last week safely entrenched in first.place and with only one worry in the world: lately they couldn't beat the New York Rangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreless Wonders | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Wrong Foot. Near McAlester, Okla., Sid M. Puryear, employee at the naval ammunition depot, got a bad bruise when a crate containing 1,900 pairs of safety shoes fell on his foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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