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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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If the collected works of William Saroyan-twelve full-length plays, seven novels and some 1,500 short stories-could be sap-boiled down to a single sentence, it would read, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." In the days of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time to Shoot Santa | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

A noted small change specialist yesterday spotted 1956 pennies and dimes floating around the Cambridge area about four months ahead of schedule. This year's supply is running out, he asserted.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disappearing Pennies Force Early Minting | 5/25/1956 | See Source »

This was their story: Russian seamen had spotted the frogman, wearing a black diving suit and flippers on his feet, at 7:30 one morning, floating between two Soviet destroyers. He stayed on the surface a minute or two. then dived under. The Russian admiral complained to the Portsmouth naval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Missing Frogman | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Maestro. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Patrolman Ed MacNeil spotted four-year-old Aubrey H. Osborne Jr. driving casually along in a model T Ford, watched openmouthed as Aubrey parked perfectly after being signaled to the curb, wrote out a ticket to the boy's father, who protested: "Why, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

When the plate was developed, the graduate student announced, "Now I'm going to look for comets." Bok, amused, chuckled. "Ha, ha, everyone looks for comets." But upon inspection Bappu spotted one, and Gordon A. Newkirk '50 and Bok confirmed his discovery. The comet, of only the thirteenth magnitude, is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easy | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

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