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Word: cummingses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither background nor training suggests the single-minded operator who led the money-hungry major leagues westward to the California gold fields. Nothing betrays the brash architect of baseball's biggest revolution since a Brooklyn pitcher named "Candy" Cummings fired the first curve and separated the men from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walter in Wonderland | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

According to Baudelaire's definition of a superior man-"He is not a specialist" -Robert Graves is distinctly superior. He has strongly held, closely reasoned, occasionally absurd opinions on everything under the sun and-considering his longstanding infatuation with the lunar White Goddess-on everything under the moon too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meet Robertulus | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

"We aren't trying to preach or write down to the kids," explains Fury Producer Irving Cummings Jr. "We want to entertain them and still not contribute to their intellectual impoverishment." Though Cummings insists that Fury is not out to "win any wars," many of its fans' fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Horse with a Message | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

As petite, auburn-haired Gracie bowed out of one of television's most successful comedy shows, George Burns, now 62, insisted that he would go on without her. He will also continue as head of TV's moneymaking McCadden Productions (Bob Cummings Show, The People's Choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Burns Without Allen | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Previous poets who have given the Series include T. S. Eliot '10, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, and E. E. Cummings '15.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Advocate' Runs Out Of Poetic Graduates | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

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