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Word: elevens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayer has been appearing on NBC's "Twenty-One," in competition with other contestants answering questions in a wide range of categories. Tonight he will attempt to answer ten and eleven point questions, worth $2500 for each point, or $45,000 in all. Last week Mayer tied his opponent in the questioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Graduate to Attempt To Win TV Jackpot Tonight | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...Yale soccer team will meet a determined Crimson eleven this afternoon at 2 p.m. at New Haven. Two weeks ago Harvard beat the same Princeton squad which last week handed the Elis a 2-1 defeat...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Soccer Squad Will Meet Yale Today | 11/22/1957 | See Source »

...cold statistics but by the bitter realization that matters will likely get worse before they get better. Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is at its lowest since 1954. Pollster George Gallup finds the normally Republican Midwest leaning Democratic (54% to 46%) in congressional choices for the first time in eleven years. Breaking a six-year preference, says Gallup, independent voters consider Democrats the prosperity party rather than Republicans (proDemocratic: 30%; pro-Republican: 25%). The G.O.P. also faces a mathematical disadvantage in next year's congressional elections. Of 32 Senate seats up, five are safely occupied by Southern Democrats, eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: The Democratic Tide | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Critic John Crosby, who has been dishing it out to TV for eleven years in the New York Herald Tribune and 95 other papers, started taking it last week. After serving as narrator in the debut of CBS's The Seven Lively Arts, Crosby "went into a state of shock" at the sort of things TV critics say about a new performer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Critic Meets Critics | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

When the shiny horn tootled First Call, only three thoroughbreds trotted to the post: that sprinting fool, Bold Ruler, back in shape after a bout with heart trouble; the handsome bay, Round Table, riding high on an eleven-straight winning string; and the controversial colt, Gallant Man, who lost the Derby by a dirty nose. Between them they had already earned nearly $1,500,000; now they were after a piddling $82,350. But the money didn't matter. The winner of last week's race at New Jersey's Garden State track would be America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse of the Year | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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