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Word: thornes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson (Thorn Mt.)--Good to excellent upper, fair to good lower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow's Great! | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

Buraimi Oasis. A small but prickly thorn, the ownership of this sun-scorched cluster of eight scrubby villages (with oil riches below), has resulted in border scraps between Saudi Arabia and two British-protected sheikdoms. The British charge bitterly that the Saudis offered an $84 million bribe to one of the Buraimi chieftains. The British want the U.S. to restrain the Saudis, who have got rich quick through a yearly income of $250 million in royalties from the U.S. oil company Aramco. The State Department says that the U.S. cannot tell Saudi Arabia what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Points of Conflict | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...oldest titles in the University is that of Dr. George W. Thorn, who is Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic. Less well-known is Bartol Brinkler, assistant in charge of Subject Cataloguing in the Harvard College Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curators for Mollusks, Reptiles Lurk Among University Faculty | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...says to Gloucester. ". . . Change places; and handy-dandy, which is the justice, which the thief." Many observers connected with Harvard have long looked upon the Arnold Arboretum controversy with similar bemusement and unconcern. To them, the problem of housing the Arboretum's botanical library and specimens has been a thorn in the University's side through ten years of huff and puff. But for those people actually touched by the controversy, the solution of the Arboretum dispute is a matter of principle and commonsense...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: The Roots, They Shall Wither | 12/7/1955 | See Source »

With the crowd of 21,000 sensing a score, the varsity began to move. Dexter Lewis, a solid thorn in the Tigers' attack all afternoon, hit the line for five yards. Big Tony Gianelly blasted four more, and then picked up a first down...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Crimson Eleven Edges Favored Princeton, 7-6 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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