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Word: elies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another German compound, carbutamide, was abandoned in the U.S. by Eli Lilly & Co. because it caused liver damage, was suspected of speeding the deaths of eight patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pills for Diabetes | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...hooted for lack of any, had his first professional Manhattan hearing. In The Chairs, dubbed "a tragic farce," an aged couple who live in a sort of wave-washed fortress give a party for a horde of guests who are only so many chairs. After the old man (Eli Wallach) has delivered a "message" about the world, he and his wife throw themselves into the water. Swimming in symbolism, The Chairs readily enough suggests people's enisled fate in life's estranging sea, their efforts to flesh their daydreams, enforce their beliefs, communicate, be remembered. Providing playfully humorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Two by Two | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...race was won by Carroll, in the time of two minutes, 13.7 seconds. This, of course, augurs badly for future Crimson track teams, as the Eli is only a freshman this year. Anderson was unofficially clocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K. of C. Meet Draws 20 Harriers | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Most of the players from last year's Eli team, including Mait Jones, Bill Barhite, and John Oettinger will be back, bolstered by several players up from the '60 freshman team...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Crimson Squash Team Tops Army, 8-1, Exhibits Depth | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...even before the game ended, it was all anticlimax. What was a "measly old Ivy title," wailed the Daily Princetonian, when up at New Haven a Yale team that had whipped Princeton and tied Dartmouth was playing Harvard for the Big Three championship? What, indeed? asked proper Elis, who were determined to prove they were best in the league. In the long, 82-year history of "The Game," no Yalemen ever had so satisfying an afternoon. And few Yale teams ever put on so polished a performance. Incredibly calm and casual, Eli Quarterback Dick Winterbauer stood up behind his fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sere & Yellow Leaf | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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