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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With a $2,700 advance for his book from Doubleday, his publishers, Patterson traveled about the North, even made an audacious trip down to North Carolina to visit a girl friend. Last week in Detroit, where he was living with a sister and working as a laborer for $1.80 an hour, he was surrounded by four FBI agents as he stepped off a bus. They had arrested him at Alabama's request; it is a federal offense for fugitives to cross state lines to avoid imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Long Journey | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Composer Andriessen's score was straightforward and melodious, underlining the rising tension of the plot. And he gave his two first-rate Dutch sopranos, Louise de Vries (Philomela) and Greet Koeman (the sister) singing roles that were powerful, dramatic and sometimes rhapsodic. When the curtain came down, the jampacked audience was not quite sure whether it had seen the dawn of a "great national school." But, said one Amsterdam University professor: "This evening was very encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One for the Queen | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Twelve-year-old Patricia Murphy of Tucson, Ariz., was in an automobile accident on May 14. Her grandmother and grandfather "were killed, her mother was badly hurt, her younger sister slightly injured. Blue-eyed Patricia suffered brain injuries and lapsed into a coma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Answer | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Both the mother and sister of Mrs. Ruth Tucker, 49, had died of the disease which sent her to Chicago's Little Company of Mary Hospital. There is no known cure for polycystic kidneys, an ailment in which cysts form and destroy the normal kidney tissue. After talking things over with her husband, Mrs. Tucker agreed to let Dr. Richard Lawler, 54 staff member at the hospital, try a transplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplanted Kidney | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...this particular night, Dunster's Anton Bajuk '51 was out with Grasselli's sister, who holds a scholarship at Wellesley. Grasselli, his sister, and Bajuk go out together a great deal. The three were born and brought up in the province of Slovinia in Yugoslavia...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: 7 Displaced Persons End 1st Year | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

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