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Word: best (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hockey team, B.U. has no real weakness unless it is in its lack of depth at defense. The Terrier's first line of Tony Cicoria, Bob Marquis, and Sarge Kinlin is one of the best in the East and has played excellent hockey this season. Marquis, at center, is the team's top scorer, and with 28 points for the season is second only in the East to the varsity's Bob Cleary. Cleary, with 30 points, was behind Marquis until the Crimson's 7-2 defeat of Princeton on Saturday, when Cleary scored five points to take the lead...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Hockey Team Plays B.U. Tonight; Win Essential to N.C.A.A. Chances | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

...worse shape on the goalie problem. Neither Tab Cleary or Harry Pratt has really proven his worth as varsity goalie this year and until one of the two starts performing well, Weiland has to alternate them. It is not even known now who will start tonight, but the best guess would be Pratt, who played against Princeton last Saturday...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Hockey Team Plays B.U. Tonight; Win Essential to N.C.A.A. Chances | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

...later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Swell | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...silly as its plot. The book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash of joyless fornication, head-splitting hangovers, and a neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Is a Four-Letter Word | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...varsity made its best showing of the afternoon in the sabre, losing only 5 to 4, as Mitch Thomas won two of his three bouts. In the epee, Bruce Parker also won two matches, but the other two fencers were able to add only one more win in six matches to give Cornell a 6 to 3 epee advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Fencers Swamp Crimson To Open Season | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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