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Word: davision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ In Manhattan, the Davis Cup selection committee named the players who will go to Australia for the interzone final and the challenge round. In one more effort to bring home the cup, the U.S. will send the same team that failed to do the job last winter: Captain William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Harvard historains have mused about the location of Goffe House for centuries. There seemed little doubt that it existed; various deeds and letters established that much. But as late as 1877, Andrew McFarland Davis, in a paper for the American Antiquarian Society, was still wondering where it was. Somewhere in...

Author: By Harry K. Schwatz, | Title: Tombstone in the Tar | 10/16/1954 | See Source »

Football (Sat. 1:15 p.m., ABC). Notre Dame v. Pittsburgh; (Sat. 2 p.m., NBC). Army v. Dartmouth. Boston Symphony (Sat. 8:30 p.m.. NBC). Conductor: Charles Munch. New York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Beginning its 25th season. Die Walkure, Act. I, with Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting. Elmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Who Will Listen? It is easy enough to say, with Elmer Davis, that eminent piece of journalistic litmus paper, that ex-Communists are bores. But Koestler is no bore. He transformed history into literature of such reality that it, in turn, became history. His masterpiece, Darkness at Noon, was based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Labyrinth | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Many of his colleagues thought that Dr. Garland was unduly pessimistic. Some mass X-ray surveys, they argued, have turned up much higher percentages of lung-cancer cases than those he cited. By improving their techniques, some doctors hope to do an even better job of detection. Washington's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X Rays and Lung Cancer | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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