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Word: bowlings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though post-season football bowl games are now forbidden by at least three college conferences (Southern, Big Seven and the Ivy League), the big bowl games this New Year's Day looked as attractive as ever to the nation's insatiable football fans. The bowl promoters, desperately looking downfield for eligible receivers, hit the mark with invitations to ten teams among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bowls | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

There are symbols in this present room, if one uses his imagination. The 300-year-old agba log from French Equatorial Africa is a symbol of man's dependence upon God for his material wellbeing. The spotlight focused on a bowl of white flowers is a symbol of the light of God by which the peace of the world will come. For some, the break in front of the entrance is a defense against evil spirits, who travel in straight lines and cannot, therefore, go around the corner to enter this room. The ten lights in the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Things have been looking up this season for the once-powerful Pacific Coast Football Conference, victim of six humiliating Rose Bowl defeats since World War II. In seven games with its bitter intersectional rivals from the Midwest's Big Ten, the P.C.C. has won five. In addition, for the first time in recent memory, the West Coast has had two undefeated powerhouses, ranked in the weekly polls' top four. The two, crosstown Los Angeles rivals: U.C.L.A., No. 3, and Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Game of the Year | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...happy circumstance of schedule making, the two titans met head-on last week for Rose Bowl honors and the presumed honor of paying back the Big Ten, with usurious interest, on New Year's Day. By another happy circumstance, it was television's game of the week. Millions of TV fans, as well as the 96,869 in Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum, saw the game of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Game of the Year | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Gold-Dust Bowl. In that province last week, above the ocean flatness of North Dakota's wheat and cattle plains, flaming gas flares from 69 Amerada wells stabbed the night sky. The land that had been a dust bowl only 20 years ago was now an El Dorado to many farmers who had been on relief or working for WPA. Overnight, they had become wealthy. Last week the big opportunity had come for Farmer Lewis M. Osborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Great Hunter | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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