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Word: candlelight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candlelight, flowers and wine at mealtime are good for the stomach as well as the soul. Aside from their esthetic value, they lead to proper eating habits and good digestion, reported Chicago Physiologist Frederic Theodore Jung in Today's Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Soul for Dinner | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...accordingly called the Cave of the Virgins' Hollow. It has traditionally been shunned by most, but not by old Farmer Johannes Engert, who figured that the princesses may have stored treasure there. He defied their ghosts and dug in the cave. One night, while Engert was digging by candlelight, a red mouse came out of a hole, sat down on its haunches and beckoned to him. He told the neighbors about this unnerving event and thereafter they left him alone in his nocturnal diggings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lament for 40 Virgins | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Crowning. The Crown itself sparkled in the candlelight. The Archbishop of Canterbury moved to the high altar, clasped it in both hands and raised it before him. "Oh God, the Crown of the Faithful," he prayed, "bless, we beseech Thee, this Crown, and so sanctify Thy servant Elizabeth, upon whose head Thou dost place it . . . that she may be filled by Thine abundant grace, with all princely virtue." With the Crown borne before him, Canterbury approached the Queen. He raised it high above her, paused for all to see, and placed it on her head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Your Undoubted Queen | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Pres. Conant's candlelight ceremony took place in the Faculty Room of University Hall attended by only 150 people, selected to represent principal divisions of the University, the student bodies, the alumni, and the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey's Inaugural Ceremony May Be Simple as Conant's | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...been keeping it as a thorn in our side." Replied Dulles: "At home we Americans heatedly debate many issues, but we are not in the habit of criticizing one another outside the country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight dinner at U.S. Ambassador Joseph Green's, young King Hussein, attired in a dinner jacket, bounded in like an American teen-ager come to pick up his date, stayed on to impress the Secretary with his earnest concern for his poor country. Dulles asked permission to visit some of the refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Dulles on the Road | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

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