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Word: disks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jinx Cleaves tallied a slightly tainted second-period goal to give the Tigers a three-point bulge. Attempting a passout from behind the Crimson net, the Tiger wing banged the disk off the back of goalie Brad Richardson's leg. The puck rolled softly across the goalmouth, and plopped inside the far post...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Princeton Sextet Picks Up 4-1 Win As Crimson Sags | 3/6/1952 | See Source »

Kenny Woodman, Paul Shaw, and Disk Manning counted for eight foul shots in the two overtime to sew up the game. Manning, who scored nine points, was the Yardling star, dominating both bash boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania Hands Quintet 10th Straight Ivy Loss; Yardlings Win | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...believe in flying saucers got encouragement last week from the skeptical U.S. Air Force. On Jan. 29, an Air Force spokesman said, strange things were seen in the night sky over North Korea. The tail gunner and fire-control man of a B-29 over Wonsan saw a disk-shaped object that seemed to fly with a revolving motion. It was orange in color, and around its rim were small, bluish flames. For five minutes it flew along with the bomber at 200 m.p.h. Then it disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Saucers | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...same night, the tail gunner and fire-control man in a B-29 of another squadron saw much the same thing over Sunchon, 80 miles away. The flyers reported that the object looked globular rather than disk-shaped. It followed their plane for more than a minute. Then it vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Saucers | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Jersey's Meadowbrook and Chicago's Blackhawk, now scrambles for top soloists more than top bands. With rare exceptions, the theaters that used to pay Goodman and Shaw $10,000 a week are gone. Recording companies nowadays play for the hit song, the one-shot success; the disk jockey, who can make or break a record, rules the roost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Band Businessman | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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