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Word: bowls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other action, the Yalies are favored to top visiting Columbia at the Bowl and move into a tie for first. Dartmouth should hit the winning column this week at Hanover. The Indians face Brown, a team that by next Monday can be termed hapless. Only if the Bruins' injured regulars are in top form will Dartmouth have trouble...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Ivy League Race Tightens | 10/8/1959 | See Source »

Sentimentalists may compose elegiac dactylls in memory of Georgian Grace, but the residents of Quincy House look proudly out of their fish-bowl refectory or patter happily about their duplex suits. The elevators have failed occasionally; so far there is no way to get water in the dining room; some ceilings are not completed; and the courtyard is still unreclaimed desert. But the Quincy organism is alive and functioning...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Quincy: Open for Business | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...North Kansas City Bowl has an aviary (with a fulltime, $5,000-a-year bird keeper) and an art gallery, hopes to contribute proceeds from the sale of paintings to local charities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Attracted to the new recreation palaces, an estimated 26.5 million Americans this year will pay $440 million to bowl. The entire bowling business, i.e., investments in alleys, bowling equipment and fees, will gross more than a billion dollars in 1959 for the first time. New bowlers are increasing at the rate of 12%-14% a year. The rules-making American Bowling Congress' paid membership has jumped to 3,250,000 this year from 1,500,000 five years ago, and the number of A.B.C. certified lanes in the U.S. has increased to 87,475 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Milk for Beer. They also made a big play for the housewife, taught so many to bowl that membership in the Woman's International Bowling Congress last year passed the 1,000,000 mark, is expected to increase another 250,000 this year. In many an alley the beer cooler has given way to the bottle warmer. When Cleveland's suburban Northfield Lanes opened last year, it offered housewives three weeks of free bowling, also tossed in lessons, coffee and baby sitting on the house. By following this pattern (often adding closed-circuit TV for mothers to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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