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Word: duels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's Larry Flaxman and Newport's Dick kazmaler, former Princeton all-American football player and Harvard B-School graduate, staged a close duel for scoring honors. Kazmaler scored 23 points, while Flaxman totaled 20, half of them from the foul line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Five Beats Newport, 66-58 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...next ten minutes and six sequences of the game were a repeat of the first period defensive duel until Princeton wingback Bill Agnew took a deep reverse hand-off on his 20 and was buried under an avalanche of snowy-jersied Crimson tacklers, who jarred loose the ball so that Moigs could recover on the eight...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Varsity Eleven Tops Tigers, 14-9 As Line Checks Princeton Attack | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Comden and Adolph Green) was bound to become a musical in time-and doubtless in time for Mary Martin to play Peter. She looks as boyish as can be expected of any grownup of the opposite sex. She is hard to beat at singing, she can dance, she can duel with Captain Hook; and when she flies through the air, she races and soars and dips like some Peter Pan-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...running duel between an American mogul and a canny crew of scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: High and Dry | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

...Duel in the Jungle (Warners) need never have happened if somebody at Warners had spoken to his wife about it first. The story concerns a wealthy Englishman named Henderson (David Farrar) who is squandering his substance in an attempt to develop some offshore diamond fields. But as every bride knows, there is no point whatsoever in developing new diamond fields. Those at Kimberley, South Africa, more than supply the world with engagement rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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