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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of New Hampshire edged Yale 1403 to 1401 to win first place honors. Third place went to M.I.T. who defeated coast Guard Academy, 1399 to 1399, in a duel for third place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Rifle Squad Places Fifth in Intercollegiate Meet | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...tongue, Faure seeks to cajole. But two months ago Faure flew into a rage when L'Express' Editor Servan-Schreiber hinted that he had reduced the tax on race horses for the sake of his fellow members of the Racing Club, challenged the editor to a duel, was practicing myopicaliy with a revolver before Mendès managed to calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRANCE'S NEW PREMIER | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...Laurentis are well ahead of M-G-M and David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that he had budgeted the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Peter Churchill, Poindexter, and Dane also skied in the relay which was won for the Finnish Ski Club of New York by Anchorman Tauno Pulkinen in 38:46. Pulkinen won a last lap duel with Dick Osgood of the University of New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Entrants Finish Poorly in Three Ski Meet | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...assign Grace to Green Fire (which she did as her part of the bargain on Country Girl} and then offer her Quentin Durward. Grace, who sees the satin-lined trap as clearly as anyone, refused the Durward part after reading the script. "All the men can duel and fight, but all I'd do would be to wear 35 different costumes, look pretty and frightened. There are eight people chasing me: the old man, robbers, the head gypsy and Durward. The stage directions on every Daie of the script say: 'She clutches her jewel box and flees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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