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Word: willow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bakery supplies. In 1928, she remarried, and moved on to her husband's Bar 99 ranch in the Nebraska sandhills. She was told then that grass and trees would not grow in the sand, but her sprawling white ranch house now stands in a grove of hackberry and willow trees and on a velvet green lawn. Inside are her collections of Early American glass, beer steins, colonial furniture and needlework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Lady from Bar 99 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House Social Service committee will begin operating Whispering Willow, a camp for the benefit of underprivileged children from more than 40 settlement houses in the Boston area, this week. Over 120 undergraduates will participate in the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Committee to Run Camp For Benefit of Needy Children | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

Elizabeth Etnier's The Willow is a cleanly written story of a Maine coast tragedy. Like a lot of people, young Maud and Dave Higgens were enchanted by the idea of escaping dull jobs in New York and going to live on a lovely island. Actually, they were misfits, "artistic" without being artists, totally unable to cope with life. At first, life on the island was the idyl they had dreamed, but when their money ran out and children came, the cruel business of earning a living in a hard country turned romance into a poverty-draped nightmare. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worth the Money | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

James Harkless sang his group of English and Italian art songs with simplicity and fluency. His mellow, relaxed style, however, seemed fitting only in "The Willow Song" and in Salvator Rosa's "Star Vincino." The rest quickly became cloying...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Adams House Music Society | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

...WILLOW Run, built by the Government for plane production by Ford in World War II and bought in 1948 by Kaiser, may end up as a General Motors plant. G.M., which leased 40% of Willow Run after its Hydra-Matic transmission plant at Livonia burned down last Aug. 12, is sounding out Kaiser Motors on the possibility of buying the huge property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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