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Word: bowlful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sellout. In Chattanooga, Restaurant Owner Mitchell Wallace put this ad in the Times: "Business for sale. Need money for Orange Bowl game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Boston Post. Harvard will shock all the sporting world by going through its football season undefeated and united, and runningup a 60 to 0 score against Yale. Director of Athletics Thomas D. Bolles will then announce that Harvard will consider a bid to play in the Rose Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Preview | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...ragged beggars who gather around the cathedrals of Europe, the mosques and holy places of the Orient. The sight of a paretic Venetian pandering his nine-year-old daughter, or of a Calcutta mendicant clutching the withered body of a dead baby with one hand, a beggar's bowl in the other, is not easily forgotten. In such situations, Americans often assume the smug attitude that such things are not done at home; in the good old U.S.A., everything is organized, charity is tidily and efficiently handled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Innocents at Home | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...compatible color-TV system (TIME, Oct. 26). Within minutes of the FCC decision, the big networks were on the air with color programs; both NBC and CBS announced plans to start beaming regular programs soon. Among the first: Amahl & the Night Visitors on Christmas Day, the Rose Bowl Parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: The Color Gamble | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Last January, while Graham and his wife were in Los Angeles for the pro bowl game, their youngest child was taken ill and died before the Grahams could get home. "It set me thinking," Otto says. "It was the first adversity that ever hit me. Until then, the worst that had ever happened to me was to have a pass intercepted. It gave me a more serious outlook. Now, I just want to keep busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-Round Otto | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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