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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substitute sank a basket, making the final score 82 to 77. Bradley lost by less than seven points, and consequently the players were given only $75 each...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Police Arrest Law Student As Hoop Fixer | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...Into West Berlin on the subway came Karel Douba, 32, who claims to be the ping-pong champ of northern Czechoslovakia, and his blonde girl friend. They told how they had crossed the Czech border by carrying a basket of mushrooms and posing as pickers. In the Soviet zone of Germany they thumbed a ride, found that the driver who slowed down to pick them up was a Red policeman. He took them to Berlin without question. Douba said he recently finished serving a year's jail term imposed when a Communist agent heard him joking in a restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Defections | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...balletlike warmups, the Russians invariably pounded on to the court and confounded opponents with rifle passes, cat-quick ball handling, and a rough & ready determination to get the ball off the backboards. Best Russian play: a fast U.S.-style break, three or four sleight-of-hand passes under the basket which left the befuddled defense falling all over itself, while one of the Russian outside men dunked the ball into the basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: European Champions | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...hammering echoed up & down the mountain-more noise than the little campus had ever heard, since the day Pastor Kelly first opened it in 1926 with twelve would-be mountain preachers. By 8 a.m. the floor beams were down on the foundations prepared beforehand. By noon, when the basket lunches were served, the main framework of the cottages was up. By 3 p.m. there were walls; by 4, doors and windows. By sunset, men were working on the roofs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Make a Little Chamber... | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Indoor Athletic building. Newell Boat House, and Hemenway leave more to the student's conscience than Dillon. Each incoming students is given a ford and is expected to throw it in a large laundry basket when done. there is no check other than routine screening as they leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Strikes Back After Towel Loss Totals $3,600 | 5/11/1951 | See Source »

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