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Word: bunch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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That the play and its performances are admirably smooth and finished doesn't change the fact that the characters are a bunch of unlikely people calcuated to entertain. But then this is the business of the theatre...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Pleasure of His Company | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...they want in the U.S. Foreign Service is "a small force of well-trained professionals" who are willing "to risk their comforts and-in some lands-their health." What the authors really want (and no one can deny that it would be fine, if it were possible) is a bunch of saints with engineering degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Man's Burden | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Exeter, classes were small, and elementary courses met in many sections (the lecture system remains alien to their culture). The girls proved interesting to teach, "a conscientious bunch, though as a group not so bright as the Radcliffe students." As for the obvious enticement for a bachelor, Labaree's plans for a June marriage with a Vassar-Wellesley girl assert his freedom from the law of proximity...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Winthrop Colonial | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...forward line can either be a bunch of All-Americans or dubs," says Munro, "but they have been improving in practice." Larry Ekpebu, who showed promise last year, will be at outside left. John Hedreen will open at inside left, Roger Tuckerman is back for his second year at center, John Mudd will start at inside right, and Dick McIntosh, a sophomore, will start at outside right...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Injuries Cloud Soccer Team Predictions; Coach Munro Must Rebuild 'Dark Horse' | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...improved over ordinary hot-rods that it can be opened up only at Bonneville. The drivers race not against each other but against the clock, on solitary, screaming runs through the timing traps on the ninemile, arrow-straight course. "These men aren't a bunch of scatterbrained kids like the hot-rodders who race around every town in America," said Southern California Timing Association Director Jim Lindsley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hottest Hot-Rod | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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