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Word: bike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abby Smith '54 had been at the 'Cliffe Grant-in-Aid Fund auction the could have bid for her brand new English bike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Bicycle Auctioned Off; All a Mistake Smith Declares | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

Five-Ring Circus. The training routine has both the exhausting overtones of a six-day bike race and the bewildering versatility of a five-ring circus. The day starts with 6 a.m. reveille. At 8, the candidates for the team put in more than an hour of riding, sharing six retired Army remount horses borrowed from Fort Belvoir. At ten, the group heads for the pistol range where Sharpshooter Troy puts them through their paces. Using .22 caliber pistols-because they are easy to shoot and ammunition is cheap-the squad practices pumping bull's-eyes into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Pentathletes | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...career began four years ago when, aged seven, he walked off with top prize for Italian entrants at an international children's art show in Milan. Ever since then, Severino's intricate pen & ink studies of such subjects as lizards, snails, fish, insects, flowers, vegetables and bike races have kept right on winning prizes in juvenile art shows at home and abroad. Severino's classmates at the village grammar school in Sant' Arcangelo soon caught the fever, formed a hard-painting little group known as "the School of Severino." Paramount Films did a movie short about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The School of Severino | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...they seemed to play Boccherini's Quartet in D., Op. 6 with an air of almost impudent informality, sometimes glancing boldly around the audience as they played. For those used to staidness from string quartets, the atmosphere had something of the wild freedom of coasting downhill on a bike, no hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three Men & a Girl | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Here is as versatile a gadget as we've seen since the invention of the flashlight. Officially termed by the BICYCLE EXCHANGE at 3 Bow Street, a Berec Handlamp and Cyclechamp. It hooks on to almost anything. It clips to a belt, clamps on a bike handle, suspends from any bar, sits on the ground, and can even be carried in the hand. It takes two regular flashlight batteries, and sells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

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