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Word: stevenses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At a performance of Samson and Delilah in Miami, Soprano Risë Stevens' breathtaking Delilah prompted enthusiastic operagoers to rush to the lobby during intermission and rack up a new house record for the sale of binoculars.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

After a newsman dug up the fact that Lieut. General George Washington died before the rank of general of the armies could be conferred on him. Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens declared that the Army no longer has the power to promote Washington, tossed the problem to Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

There are few cities in the world where a handicapped child can receive such thorough and expert training, and few where a bright, industrious and resolute student can gain such a fine technical or scientific background. The New York public schools which produced such notorious gangsters as Frank Costello and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls Together | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

New Zealander Antony Alpers has also written a book that will become required reading of a sort. His literary biography, Katherine Mansfield (Knopf), is a conscientious job laced with fresh facts about a writer whose real career was neurotic self-destruction. Another literary collection of the season sells for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The September Glut | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

In early 1950, the American Friends Service Committee launched a new "job-opportunities program" in Chicago, headed by Thomas Colgan, whose first step was to talk hiring practices with Field's the bellwether of State Street's big four (the other three-Mandel Brothers, Inc., The Fair, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Progress on State Street | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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