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Word: crucially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close for two and a quarter periods in the Freshman-Newman Prep basketball game last night. Then someone, maybe Coach Lloyd Harper, pushed the crucial button and the Crimson rolled to a 63-46 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting '52 Five Defeats Newman | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

Polite Insubordination. One of the most powerful advocates of peace now with the Reds was broad-shouldered, bony-faced General Pai Chung-hsi, formerly China's Defense Minister and now Commander in Central China. He commands four Nationalist armies in the Hankow area, crucial for its position athwart the flow of food (from the Hunan rice bowl) and of munitions (from Szechwan arsenals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: When Headlines Cry Peace | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...dove has to pure white," McKee explained, "and it's better if it is a stormy night," Drawing their information from a collection of books cached away in Widener Library, they felt they could settle a whole slew of metaphysical questions with one crucial test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devil Must Wait As Wizards Seek Sacrificial Doves | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...somebody such as myself, who didn't have any ideas about the election and wanted to know what Louis Hartz had to say, it was a frustrating experience to hear him get to some crucial syllable and then to lose him in a mass of interruptions by the young liberals, who didn't have any more ideas than I did, but being young liberals, felt inspired to express themselves. So it was a sort of delayed intellectual fulfillment to hear Hartz speak about the elections, along with Louis Bean, on Monday evening. He spoke from the lecture platform of Emerson...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

...Ulen is taking nothing for granted, however. Crucial contests loom with Yale, Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton, and he is working as hard and fast as possible to pull the squad into top shape. The familiar names of Chuck Hoelzer, Tommy Woods, Larry Ward, and Joe Fox highlight the possible lineup for the 300-yd. medley relay. But there is more depth in the relays this season than could be mustered last year, and Norm Watkins, Paul Killoran, and Jim Mac-Vicar are also possibilities in the freestyle division of the relays...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Varsity Swimmers, Stronger than Ever, Striving for Perfect Season | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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