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Word: posting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after, McLaughlin was moved to a post where he could get some salt air; he became commander of the Bristol. Still vowing that he had seen a saucer in his telescope, he sold the idea to the Sunday supplement This Week, which prepared a four-page EYEWITNESS REPORT stating that "saucers are space ships from another planet." At the last minute, This Week got cold feet; it sold the story to True, which ran it. From essentially the same evidence on which McLaughlin (in True) conjectured that the saucers are made-in-Mars, U.S. News concluded that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Saucer-Eyed Dragons | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Probable varsity lineup: Attack: Plissner, Yost, and Hudner; Defense: Coburn, Spence, and Byrne; Midfields: Post, Davidson (Capt.), and Birdsall; Davis, Graham, and Waring, Thayer, Bender, and Lynch; Goal: Clarke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball, Track, Lacrosse Squads Will Start Home Seasons Today | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

Because Ron Huebsch was sidelined by an attack of mumps, Whitney had to alter his starting midfield, dropping Pete Franklin back from his forward post in place of Huebsch. Franklin scored a goal on a pass from Grant early in the third period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Lacrosse Team Defeats Lawrence, 7-1; Grant Is Star | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

Saving Graces. For all their uniform mediocrity, Boston papers do have an individuality of their own. The Democratic Post, with its crazy-quilt makeup, somehow conveys the air of a loquacious New England storekeeper with a lot to say, if not about anything important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Proper Bostonians | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Last week, Calvert President William Wendell Wachtel, suave enough to pose for one of his own ads, uncorked a rebuttal in The Advertiser and in a letter to the Washington Post. The men of distinction, said he, "are temperate and Godfearing . . . gentlemen [who] prefer to drink in their own homes with their families about them and in the presence of their children. Would the drys want all advertisers to urge the misuse or abuse of products? In that case, automobile manufacturers should advertise a brand-new car in a smashup wrapped around a tree; sun lamp producers should advertise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: A Man of Distinction | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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