Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dramatists of TV's putative golden age, Paddy Chayefsky was certainly the most golden. But who cares about his 1950s TV work anymore? His most acclaimed teleplays (Marty, The Bachelor Party) live on chiefly because of their movie adaptations, and Chayefsky himself (who died in 1981) is destined to be remembered more for his savage 1976 satire of television, Network, than for the work he did when he and the medium were on better terms...
Indeed, when Jewett saw the overflowing crowds in the 1950s, Harvard was far from the mosaic it is today...
Twice during this century, in the 1900s and in the 1950s, Harvard administrators seriously considered abolishing the program because of its financial burden and violent nature. They were unable to do so, not-so-ironically, because of the a obstinacy and ferocity of Harvard football fans...
When pressed, he says he applied sometime in the summer, explaining that Harvard was more of a regional college in the 1950s and had more flexibility in boosting the number of its matriculators after the deadline...
...encyclopedia of bridge, Cole claimed that he founded the Harvard Bridge Team in 1985. But according to bridge community sources, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and newspaper clippings on file in the University archives, the Harvard Bridge Club has fielded teams in intercollegiate competitions since the 1950s...