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Word: brushings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final honor seemed to be his. Then last week, in a game against the Boston Bruins, Rocket Richard exploded into one of the most splendid flare-ups of his career. Clipped in the head by Boston Forward Hal Laycoe's high-swinging stick, the Rocket hardly bothered to brush the blood out of his eyes before he flattened Laycoe. He also managed to give Linesman Cliff Thompson a poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vive le Rocket! | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...defense has dominated world affairs-from budgets to foreign policy-for more than 15 years. Nonetheless, the nation's academicians still brush off the study of war as a matter best left to professional military men. Result: a hard-to-fill hole in the education of civilians who shape U.S. policy at home and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Filling the Gap | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...chose C in both instances, you are an incurable wag and don't deserve success or popularity anyway. Mr. Davis is very firm about humor. You are to write down all jokes and then "brush up on your humor just before you want to use it. This technique is used by some of the most successful salesmen." Of course, that's what Jim used to do, and how far did it get him? Come to think of it. I'll bet Davis isn't so darned good looking. Fat from all those dinners...

Author: By D. CARNEGIE (cor-neg-ic), | Title: Here It Is! | 3/19/1955 | See Source »

...posted a six-digit random number every day for the last month throughout the University buildings, Stephen G. Brush and Paul E. Condon, Leverett House seniors who founded the society, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Society Posts 'Random Numbers' | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

...most Westerners, Japanese art spells woodcuts. This pains the Japanese, who are justly proud of their brush drawings, Buddhist sculptures and painted screens. But like American jazz, Japanese woodcuts succeed in expressing a popular culture precisely. The unique charm of that culture was amply displayed this week when some 350 top-rank Japanese prints went on view at Chicago's Art Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OUT OF THE FLOATING WORLD | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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