Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew easily won the 54th Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta, began to point for the Olympic tryouts on June 28 and the veteran Navy crew (now the Admirals) that won the Olympics in 1952. Meanwhile, Yale, another Olympic threat, rowed merrily down the Thames at New London, Conn, to defeat ancient rival Harvard for the 54th time in 104 meetings. ¶In the season's biggest trade, the seventh-place New York Giants swapped four players even with the St. Louis Cardinals, got a lift when Red Schoendienst, their new second baseman, hit a homer while Shortstop Al Dark...
Said Prime Minister Anthony Eden in a speech at London's Guildhall (in principle, Jews were not permitted to join England's ancient guilds): "Let us freely acknowledge that they have richly repaid their welcome...
...ancient law, a debtor was bound to a creditor, sometimes with chains. This piece of jurisprudence, so mysterious to the modern mind, provides the clue to A Dance in the Sun, the second novel of the talented young (27) South African novelist, Dan Jacobson...
...world's leading capitalist-enterprise republic has to offer? Without a real world economic plan, and faced by a fast-moving Communist economic offensive, the Administration had dissipated its foreign-aid advantage, to the distress of staunch foreign-aid friends in both parties-and to the delight of ancient isolationist enemies in both parties...
...London last week ancient (42) Archie Moore peered curiously for nine sparring rounds at a raw West Indian named Yolande Pompey before calmly knocking him kicking in the tenth to hold on to his light-heavyweight title. This business settled, Archie sat back to await the outcome of a fight he found more interesting: the twelve-round battle in Manhattan between Floyd Patterson and Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. As Archie-and most of the boxing trade-figured it, the winner would have to fight him in the fall for the heavyweight title, up for grabs since Rocky Marciano retired last April...