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Word: beacons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger beacon at Dakar, 762 miles away in French West Africa, seemed to be interfering with local signals. After that, silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Big Bird's Death | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Titan," the absorbing story of Michelangelo, and "Beaver Valley," the fascinating tale of an anonymous animal kingdom, are also featured at the Beacon Hill. The marquee boasts that all three films are Academy Award winners. And all three speak well for the value of the award itself...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

April 17 was the big day for Beacon Hill anticommunists. The legislative program copied from Maryland's Ober Law by the Special Committee to curb Communism was up for consideration before the Committee on Constitutional Law. The latter committee was so impressed by the issue of Communism that it held the hearing in Gardiner Auditorium, anticipating a large crowd. But when the big day came, spectators filled only a third of the seats...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...resolution was introduced on Beacon Hill yesterday calling for the removal of Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 from the bench of Cambridge's Third District Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stone's Sex Case Decision Brought Call for Removal | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

...Beacon Hill Theatre took a chance when it booked Ivy Films' two productions, "Much Ado About Studying" and "A Touch of the Times" to run with the 1949 Newspaper Guild Award winner, "The Quiet One." While the two College Films are an amazing achievement for a young, penny-pinched undergraduates group, they can hardly be expected to equal professional production standards. The audience expects just his, unfortunately, after kicking in 90 cents a head...

Author: By Humphrey Doermann, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/20/1951 | See Source »

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