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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As he reached for the door handle, a youth, apparently stationed as a lookout, fled from the front of the car. Dellera spotted a partner lying on the front seat, rifling the glove compartment. Quickly pinning him under the flexible front seat of the coupe, Dellera reached for his 30...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Teenager Caught Rifling Car in Alley Behind Winthrop House | 10/5/1954 | See Source »

A University of California graduate, Steve Bechtel started working summers in his father's construction firm. In 1931 the firm teamed up with other construction outfits to form the famed Six Companies that built Hoover Dam. After his father died in 1933, Steve Bechtel started branching out into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Power for Korea | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

It will not be easy, said Gold, for scientists to discover the megaphysical laws; they cannot play with galaxies as they do with neutrons and electrons. But all sorts of clues must be lying around, and they should be spotted eventually.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Non-Commonsense Cosmos | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

The entertainment world's most refreshing romance blew fair and warm as Cinemactress Debbie (Susan Slept Here) Reynolds, 22, floated off a plane from Hollywood at New York's International Airport and into the open arms and bashful buss of Crooner Eddie (I Need You Now) Fisher, 26...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Returning from a uranium-prospecting jaunt in the barren countryside of Queens land, Australia one day last month a jeepload of weekend prospectors bogged down in a creek. Four got out to push while a fifth, Timberman Norman McConachie, idly strolled along the creek bank with a Geiger counter. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Mary Kathleen | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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