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Word: dovetails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there isn't a stadium in Kentucky that could hold the crowd," and Boston observers predict that the contest would draw well in Cambridge too. The observation by Centre President Groves that "It's not like the good old days here; we play strictly amateur ball," would seem to dovetail perfectly with Harvard's football philosophy. This past year, moreover, Centre's small enrollment managed to turn out a team that beat all eight of its opponents, led the nation in offense, and--if it could have paid for train tickets--would have played in the Tangerine Bowl at Orlando...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Centre Shall Rise Again! | 12/13/1955 | See Source »

...girlish part in the group, the play also succeeds. In her more personal scenes, where a secret self must be made vocal and visual, she sometimes falls short. There is nothing so private as a diary or so public as a stage, and the two, at times, refuse to dovetail. Again, certain loudspeakered diary passages take on the tone of bulletins. But a play that very largely succeeds with its material everywhere respects it, and in her limelighted Broadway debut, 17-year-old Susan Strasberg plays Anne with obvious talent and much animation and appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Said John Olin: "It's a natural combination. Mathieson makes ammonia; Olin uses ammonia. Mathieson makes caustic soda; Olin uses caustic soda. Mathieson built up from basic chemicals into consumer products; Olin went from consumer products down into the chemical field . . . The two companies dovetail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The New Giant | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Although the Allston Burr tutorial system has gotten off to a promising start, a final judgment must wait four years until the initial appointments come to an end. Applications for the posts then will show whether the duties of scholar and administrator dovetail well enough to continue attracting high-calibre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Burr Tutors | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

Twin Pillars. EDC is designed to dovetail the armies of Western Europe so that none can be easily withdrawn for aggressive adventures of its own. This is a more complicated ambition than simple rearmament; the result is a complicated blueprint. At the top, EDC will have 1) a Council of Ministers, 2) an 87-man Assembly, 3) a nine-man Commissariat, serving as a six-nation general staff. Together, EDC and the Schuman Coal-Steel Plan will form the military and economic pillars of a still more visionary federation: the U.S. of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDO THE EUROPEAN ARMY: Dead, Dying or Durable? | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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