Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Court tennis, absent from the College's athletic scene for 36 years, will return a week from this Saturday when an informal three-man team meets Yale at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club for the intercollegiate challenge bowl...
...specialists estimate that a 1954 harvest 10% lower than 1953's would spread famine through most of China. New grabs of territory, e.g., the rice bowl of Indo-China, might alleviate but would not solve the problem, for it is one of distribution as well as supply...
...Bill Spear, in a 4.5-liter Ferrari, won the President's Cup race at a roaring 81.85-m.p.h. average. Some 60,-ooo turned out for the biggest series of sports-car races (178 entries) ever held in the U.S. Winner Spear's reward: a two-foot silver bowl, presented to him in person by President Eisenhower. ¶In St. Louis, the Cardinals' Rightfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial had himself quite a day at the plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping home runs, a major-league record. ¶The World...
...attendant discomfort and difficulty, the rain (which was torrential and damaging only in scattered areas) brought jubilation to the dust bowl. "It was a joy just to lie in bed listening [to it]," wrote Frank Grimes, the aged editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News. "If you had been just a little younger, you'd have climbed out of bed and rushed into the yard to squish the heavenly mud between your toes and turn your face to the sky." Many a farmer did stand shivering happily in the open; at Brownfield, Texas, the high-school band staged...
...overcomes the understandable audience disappointment at this deception and turns the routine into the evening's highpoint. She also sings the show's best novelty, "Hernando's Hideaway," a nonsensical little tango which she tears into with grim intensity. Since the lyrics are something like: "At the Golden Finger Bowl or anywhere you go, You'll meet your Uncle Max and everyone you know," you might guess that no one takes the songs, or the show, very seriously...