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Word: dexterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Dexter Lewis was the outstanding player on the team during the trip and by far the highest scorer. In the game with Virginia he sank nine of the ten points tallied by the varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Ends Spring Trip With Five Losses to Top Colleges | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Munro will depend heavily on Captain Dexter Lewis, Larry Coburn, and Don Davidoff in the attack. John Ogden is expected to excel in the goal, while Fred Sharf will bolster the defense Fuzz Stewart is Munro's only experienced mid-fielder...

Author: By Winthrop P. Smith, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/1/1955 | See Source »

...State Department advanced a plan consistent with Eden's policy. Against the State Department view stood Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau and his right-hand man, Harry Dexter White, later to be revealed as an accomplice of a Communist spy ring. They wanted Germany to be economically gutted and turned into a country "primarily agricultural and pastoral." Harassed between Morgenthau and Secretary Hull, Roosevelt ended up with a plague-on-all-plans attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: Germany | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Dexter S. Lewis '56 of Eliot House and Newton, Mass., was named captain of the varsity lacrosse team at yesterday's practice. All of last year's lacrosse lettermen had to vote by mail for another captain because the captain elected at the end of last year did not return to school this fall and a University rule for all sports requires that last year's lettermen chose this year's captains. The final vote was received yesterday making Lewis' election official...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lewis Will Captain '55 Lacrosse Team | 3/24/1955 | See Source »

...know the 291 magic words that can make the difference between your success and failure?" Dexter Davis does; in fact, he probably knows upwards of 300 or 350 magic words. I suppose a man's got to save up something for his old age but at least he's willing to part with a big chunk of them at nominal rates. Mr. Davis supplies enough to "gain you that mastery of language that will open the door to your heart's desires" This, of course, is all very fine for Yale, where the book is a standard text in English...

Author: By D. CARNEGIE (cor-neg-ic), | Title: Here It Is! | 3/19/1955 | See Source »

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