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Word: spencers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 4 at 5:50 a.m.-the exact time may be important-Mayor J. Spencer Houk of Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, was awakened by a phone call from his friend, Dr. Samuel Sheppard: "For God's sake, Spence, get over here quick. I think they've killed Marilyn." In seven minutes Houk reached Sheppard's house. The young doctor was shaken and bloody. His wife, Marilyn, 31, four months pregnant, was dead. Last week Dr. Sheppard was indicted for the murder. "I am not guilty," he insisted. "How could I commit such a terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Forty Seconds of Fury | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Broken Lance (20th Century-Fox) takes the cinemagoer to the Old Southwest, where Cattle Baron Spencer Tracy, a likable old tyrant, has plenty of beef on the range and plenty of stewing at home. For one thing, his three eldest sons (by a first marriage) resent having to work for their tough old man; further, like almost everybody else in the area, they resent Tracy's second wife, a loving, stoical, full-blooded Indian princess (Katy Jurado). and their half-breed brother (Robert Wagner), who is also papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...quick deals came only three months after Burlington's hustling boss, J. Spencer Love, 58, had cried poor mouth and called on competitors to stop disastrous price wars. At the time, he even advocated cuts in production. But Love has since decided that the way to fight the textile slump is to have such a broad line of goods that he can compete with all comers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: New King | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...moon's shadow raced over Greenland, it was waylaid by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Britain's Astronomer Royal and lord of Herstmonceux Castle, now the Royal Observatory. Sir Harold chased the shadow from Greenland to Iceland in an R.A.F. bomber, prolonging his view of totality by 22 seconds as he looked for daylight aurorae. He saw none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flight of a Shadow | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...current London Journal of Mental Science, three British psychiatrists, R. A. Sandison, A. M. Spencer and J.D.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dream Stuff | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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