Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Retirement. Division commanders were a dime a dozen in World War II, and Dean, though he earned a solid professional reputation, came out of it with no public acclaim. It took defeat and captivity to give him that...
Illinois, with Bates and Caroline rolling up most of the yardage, scored early, but Wisconsin bounced right back. By half-time at Madison, the partisan crowd of 52,887 was roaring its acclaim for Ameche & Co., who had tied the score, then gone ahead 14-7. The touchdown twins never caught up. Leading ground-gainer of the day, as Wisconsin salted the game away with three more touchdowns in the last quarter: Alan Ameche, with 145. Final score...
Died. Dylan Marlais Thomas, 39, Wales's bright young mystic of English poetry (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Under Milk Wood), whose vivid, tempestuous verse won him both critics' acclaim and thousands of readers; of undisclosed causes, while on a lecture tour of the U.S.; in Manhattan...
Brown has just completed an extended building program, and instituted a revolutionary new study plan. Both have lifted the university by the bootstraps. People at Brown optimistically point to the best dormitories ever build on College Hill. They envision nation-wide acclaim for their high-powered course plan. And they see the traditional prestige of the "Ivy Label" as rightfully theirs...
...college (Graceland, Iowa), only 17 years ago. Appropriately, it was another young giant of anesthesiology, Chicago's Dr. Max Samuel Sadove, 39, who put a capstone on Keown's work. "Ken has shown us the way, and we've followed," said Sadove, who won wide medical acclaim for his work in keeping the Brodie twins alive through many operations, including the one to separate their brains (TIME...