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Word: beatness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson beat Brandeis 27 to 8 in a three-ring circus that saw six pitchers, including a major portion of the Brandeis outfield, parade across the mound in a vain attempt to control a 20-hit Harvard attack which included four home runs, a triple, and three doubles. It was often entertaining. But with the fine Holy Cross game only a day in the past, one had trouble calling it baseball...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Baseball Varsity Routs Brandeis 20-8, With Strong 20-Hit Attack | 5/2/1957 | See Source »

...emerges from Webern's works a kind of rhythmic logic all his own. There are the same echoes of a distorted reality that characterize Kafka -the sound of church bells (or is it thunder?), snatches of bugles and drums (but what living army ever marched to such a beat?), or a sudden hop and skip, as of a fragmented polka (but no belle ever danced to such measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Haunting Viennese | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...picture begins as the trial ends on a sweltering summer afternoon in Manhattan's Court of General Sessions. A heat-beat judge grumps his charge to a jury half dissolved with humidity and boredom. The camera takes one long look at the defendant, a scared little slum bunny accused of taking his old man apart with a switchblade, and follows the twelve men into the jury room-the main institutional horror that looks (and probably smells) as if it used to be a mop closet. For the next hour and a half the moviegoer never gets his nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Pennsylvania narrowly edged the Crimson golf squad Friday, 4 to 3, and Princeton handily beat the varsity, 7 to 0, on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Lose Two At Princeton, Penn | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...race followed the same pattern as the varsity race, except that Syracuse's final beat of 38 was just too much for the Crimson oarsmen. The Orange eight won by a half length and was going away at the finish

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Varsity Crew Holds Off Late Rush By Syracuse to Record First Win | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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