Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thorne (H) decisioned Bedford (E), 5-3; 130--Adams (E) pinned Bursk (H) at 6:17; 137--Morris (E) decisioned Pollard (H), 11-1; 147--Berman (E) pinned Cunningham (H) at 3:47; 157--Mortimer (H) decisioned Brown (E), 4-0; 167--Chandler (H) decisioned Phelps (E), 15-0; 157--George (E) decisioned Waring (H), 5-1; unlimited--Bates (H) pinned Phillips...
Hastings William Sackville Russell, 61, twelfth Duke of Bedford, has an art collection, too. Ever since Holbein painted John Russell, first Earl of Bedford, in 1539, the Russells have been collecting pictures. By the turn of the 20th Century, the walls of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire home of the Russell family, were bulging with more than 500 canvases-one of the best private collections of old masters in England. The present duke has never bought a picture, but last week he had a cure for generations of collecting. With Woburn collapsing from dry rot and taxes, he had just auctioned...
...Rugby Club meets Princeton's rugby team this morning at 11 a.m. on Bedford Field in Princeton. Eighteen ruggers made the trip to New Jersey, where they will try to maintain their season's unbeaten record. In one encounter they have tied, 0 to 0, with M.I.T...
...Rotch built the institution in 1885, giving it to the University on his death in 1912. Its records can tell what the humidities in the area have been in any five-minute period since 1875, while another less detailed hand-written file goes back to 1892 for the New Bedford section. It was Blue Hill that recorded the highest wind velocity ever measured--271 m.p.h.--in April...
...came in the face of the biggest rush for cars in five years; used-car dealers were once again displaying new "used" autos at $500 and more above list prices. "Scare buying" of all consumer goods kept spreading; U.S. department-store sales jumped 21% in a week. In New Bedford, Mass., a telephone operator who caught the fever drew out her savings to buy a sewing machine which she did not know how to operate and a spinet piano which she could not play, as well as a portable radio and an outdoor barbecue...