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Word: davision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today Hicks lives a secluded life in a little old red frame farm house on a dirt road a mile off the main highway which leads down from the mountains to Troy, New York. Thirty-two years after graduation he looks more like a small-town farmer than a Phi...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Its Effects on a Few Have Produced a Harvard Myth | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

Already at Harvard when Hicks arrived was another figure who gained prominence because of his communist affiliation: Robert Gorham Davis '29, at present a professor at Smith College, then an instructor at the University. He joined the party in January 1937 and attended the same cell meetings as Hicks, Wendell...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Its Effects on a Few Have Produced a Harvard Myth | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

In a time when entertainers are often shoved onstage as a result of a hit record, without any other experience, Sammy Davis Jr. is a seasoned pro. His dancing is a study of fine rhythm and agility, his timing precise, his ad libs are deft. But he says: "I never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Fellow | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Still, a lot of people can do imitations of Bing; nobody has yet found the way of doing Sammy Davis Jr.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Fellow | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

The upsurge in business has put a rosy glow on first-quarter corporate earnings. This was plain last week as some early-bird companies reported. General Tire & Rubber Co. announced that in its first fiscal quarter (from Dec. 1, 1954 through Feb. 28) it made a profit of $2,236...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: First Quarter | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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