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Word: chicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisville final last week, Jim Turnesa met Melvin ("Chick") Harbert, 37, a slam-bang hitter who had also failed as a P.G.A. finalist (against Jim Ferrier in 1947). Harbert's booming drives consistently outdistanced Turnesa in the morning 18 holes. At the lunchtime break, Turnesa, after getting in and out of five traps, was three holes down to Harbert's 2-under-par 70. Turnesa, as spunky as he is chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After 30 Years | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...heroine, Diane Lattimer, 18, has just broken out of a reformatory. She prides herself on being a hip* chick who can deep-breathe on a stick of Tea (marijuana) or leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate drinker might feel for an alcoholic. Emotionally, Diane is a D.P. Home, for her, is not her Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: H Is for Horse | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...cooling, Luyet and his associates built a kind of miniature ducking stool. With it they suspend bits of animal tissue and plant leaves over a container of liquid nitrogen kept at -320° F. One brief duck, and the cooling process is complete. Muscle tissue from the hearts of chick embryos has been successfully frozen by the clucking stool and later brought to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep-Freeze | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Pickett's other outstanding performers will probably be Bud Adams at 137, Icko Iben at 147, and sophomore Chick Chandler at 157. Sophomore Eddie Bursk at 130, Tony Caimi at 167, Dick Farrington at 177, and George Bates at unlimited will round out the Crimson lineup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 8 Wrestlers Will Compete In Eastern Championships | 3/14/1952 | See Source »

Icko Iben at 147 will face a tough opponent in Eli senior Fred Pettit, while Chick Chandler should have little trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, Yardling Wrestling Teams Meet Yale Today | 3/8/1952 | See Source »

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