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Word: lampposts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This custom built lamppost, set up yesterday across from the main entrance of Lamont Library, is probably the last item on the project's $3,000,000 budget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamp for Lamont | 3/25/1950 | See Source »

...English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting is ridiculously wooden. Hedy Lamarr spends almost all of her waking hours draped on a half-dozen strategically placed divans or leaning against a tentpole, apparently the B.C. equivalent of a lamppost. And she rushes from divan to tentpole with such speed and determination that you begin to wonder whether old C. B. DeMille has lost his touch. In the fifth place, Victor Young's musical score is monotonous and sounds like bad Khatchatourian...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/11/1950 | See Source »

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