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Word: climaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record event was an anti-climax to the preceding 440 free-style race, one of the closest in the event for the year. Alan Rapperport edged out teammate Duke Geer by two feet as the Crimson netted first and second in the event, but Brown's Dick Fogelson was only six feet behind and had threatened to pull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swim Team Breaks Record, Whips Brown 72-12 in IAB | 2/17/1955 | See Source »

...went on the air, but got her chance to act the fiery temptress in a series of foot-stamping flashbacks. On the U.S. Steel Hour, Gertrude Berg played a slightly touched matron whose relatives weuld not believe that she talked on the phone every Sunday to her dead husband. Climax! offered a double dose of misery: both Sylvia Sidney and Diana Lynn suffered and suffered because they chose careers instead of settling for marriage and babies. But the ladies shared some of the week's agony. The General Electric Theater offered Johnnie Ray, the crybaby singer, in a drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...penny stocks. The boom then was founded on paper claims and hope; now the penny-stock companies are merging, or being taken over by companies with enough capital to start mining. At least 20 of the nation's biggest mining companies, e.g.. Phelps Dodge, Anaconda Copper, Climax Molybdenum and Vanadium Corp. of America, were looking over companies with promising claims. Thus out-of-town investors, who hooted at uranium stocks nine months ago, have changed their tune. Now three of every four orders come from outside the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The Future of Uranium | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...play approached its climax. The hero who had borne the Stat's oppression silently until now, could take it no longer: "Man is a human being above all else! To the devil with 'order!' " he shouted. The audience jumped to its feet as one and applauded furiously...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Berlin: An Abnormal Island Floating Above A Red Sea | 2/8/1955 | See Source »

...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A Leaf out of the Book, with Sylvia Sidney, Diana Lynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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