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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Bel Geddes and Fonda turn in fairly wooden performances, but there is not much they can do with a script that requires them to mouth such gems as, "God, you're sweet" The minor parts are not badly done, but this is essentially a two-person play. And that includes the audience...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Silent Night, Lonely Night | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

After only four games for Brasenose, Dawkins had developed enough to draw an occasional and modulated "Well done, Peter," from fellow players, was promoted to the Greyhounds, Oxford's second team, and started against Sandhurst, Britain's West Point. Playing right-wing three-quarter back, Dawkins scored the first try for his team by neatly sidestepping five desperate tackles, ended the game with six of the Greyhounds' points in their 29-3 triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yank at Oxford | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

About 250 students will be housed in each of the two new colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Blend | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...struggling U.S. roads need every dollar they can get. Booms Daniel Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The central issue is simply whether this industry or any industry so beset by rising competition can long survive under work rules that exact millions in pay for work not done or needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: LOAFING ON THE RAILROAD | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Most of the climbing scenes will in fact seem preposterous to anyone who has ever done 50 honest feet of Felskletterei. But to the average tree shinnier, for whom this picture is intended, they will surely look authentic and awesome. For the rest, the scenery (Matterhorn, Riffelhorn, Monte Rosa) is as spectacular as any Switzerland can show, and Hero MacArthur, in real life the son of Actress Helen Hayes, is the most wholesome-looking juvenile since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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