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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, legends were many about James Rowland Ware's Chinese 10. He is back this year with Chinese 30, a study of Chinese literature in translation (Room 130, 2 Divinity Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today and Always | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...Look Back in Anger will go down in history for leading British drama out of the drawing room and into the rooming house, for giving it a good shot of O'Neill-Miller-Williams influence, and for varying its genteel decorum with a rude, poignant intensity and a new relevance to both current and recurrent human concerns. But the analogous revolution for British movies has already been accomplished by Room at the Top, and the film version of John Osborne's play appears as a good piece of work in an established genre of sex-and-the-class-struggle movies...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...hell of a note to come back to school on. On top of picking classes, I have to lose my whole way of existence to the masses and their media. It has become painful to be seen in sneakers unless you are carrying a basketball. Keep your beard and some little Cliffie thinks it calls for a humorous comment...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Crowded Lonely | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...muttered Mortimer as he stripped his friendly Pollack copies from the wall. "Back to the old, old way of life," he remarked dully, bringing his pipe, polished loafers and Tchaikowsky collection to the fore. "The only way to preserve one's private identity today is to be a cold." Mort sucked on his pipe for solace...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Crowded Lonely | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...prevents quick stops and turns, will probably sit out the Bucknell encounter in order to be healthy for the Cornell game, the varsity's first Ivy League test. Halfback Roy Williams is out of action for 12 days with pulled ligaments in his left knee; he, too, should be back for Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wounded Improve Rapidly | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

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