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Word: thomases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ After two crowded days in which judges looked over a total of 2,544 entries, Judge Thomas H. Carruthers III bestowed the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show designation, dogdom's topflight honor, on a saucy, 4½-year-old, English-bred miniature poodle bitch, Ch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

¶ The news of the current indoor track season has been height rather than speed. At the Inquirer meet in Philadelphia, muscular Don Bragg, 23-year-old Army private, vaulted 15 ft. 9½ in. to break the 16-year-old world indoor record. At the New York Athletic Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

The television scorecard that promised so many hits in September by last week read like a list of amateur-night losers. Latest Nielsen ratings reported only one this-season entry among the top ten: ABC's oater. The Rifleman. All the rest of the top ten are oldtimers, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Casualty List | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures-like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry-were "illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended." Cocky, hot-tempered and unruly, Tom Benton talked loud and stood proud, and his fame was solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rebel Against Rebellion | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Acid Test. A. T. & T. has not only grown up with the nation; it helped it to grow. Every moviegoer who saw Don Ameche star in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell* knows how the first telephone call was made. Bell was no electrician but an elocutionist and teacher of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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