Word: memorabilia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legendary figure in Cambridge, Savides is remarkable for his little-known interviews with such figures as Dean Briggs, George Lyman Kittredge, and Bliss Perry. His piece, which follows, is offered as a bit of Dewey Memorabilia...
...sign on the office door read DON'T KNOCK. COME IN. Inside, a small, spectacled man leaned back in his chair and surveyed the walls, decorated heavily with rowing memorabilia. "I am satisfied to retire," said Carroll Ebright, 65, the University of California's head rowing coach since 1924. "I have seen our crews reach worldwide acclaim; I have been down, and now I see us coming back again. It is time for a younger...
...hand was plunged in the public till, his arm was frequently locked in that of a sly Southern collaborator who was only too happy to share the take. Unfortunately, Author Daniels' carpetsweeping approach to carpetbagger days often buries both his hero and his point in irrelevant memorabilia, including the names of countless small-fry politicos...
...collection of U.S. memorabilia intended to tell a social history of the U.S., ranging from a cigar-store wooden Indian to an early-model Ford, a chipped plaster statue of Washington and a glass showcase of latter-day examples of Western tumbleweeds. Some of the signs, said Robertson, were embarrassingly inept. Example: an 18th century New England Windsor chair-cum-writing-arm artily labeled in three languages as the model of chairs used in "virtually all" U.S. schools today. "A group I saw," said Robertson, "read the card and burst into laughter...
...copies), from which profits of $300,000 have been plowed back into maternity research. Going far beyond the skeletal birth, height, weight and teething records of conventional baby books, the volume was designed originally by an obstetrician, has now been revised by eleven medical specialists, includes the memorabilia that mothers love plus space for data that should help the pediatrician and have lasting value to doctors who treat the subject long beyond babyhood...