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Word: ells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ell Jimmy McLane fell ten seconds shy of the EISL record with a first-place time of 18:32.5 minutes in the 1500-meter Mclane powered ahead from the start and breezed in 24 seconds ahead of teammate Wayne Moore...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Crimson Hopes for Second in Meet | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

Sunday came & went as usual: poetry readers cautiously controlling their hands, villagers in their Sunday best, and news vendors-in violation of the law against "public crying,"-shouting: "Sunday papers! Brighter Sunday gone to 'ell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Quiet Sunday | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...feel a little bit sorry for the Yalles. Last year when Hawailan schoolboy Ford Konno was slicing up the "undefeatable" Marshall, those in the know were nodding their heads wisely and saying, "Kiphuth will have him at Yale next year." Konno is now at Ohio State. The poor Ell freshmen have to be content with Kerry Donovan...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...CRIMSON regrets the error. Because of the temporary absence of our prep school rowing editor, we were forced to consult the Yale Dally News of October 5, which termed the Ell 1950 lightweight crew "undefeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Really Lost | 10/16/1951 | See Source »

...Give 'Itler 'Ell!" was Ernie's motto when he joined Winston Churchill in the Coalition Cabinet in 1940. Like Winnie, but in his own Socialist way, Ernie seemed a reincarnation of John Bull. When Schoolmaster Attlee's Socialism supplanted Aristocrat Churchill's Toryism, it was Ernie rather than any of his more doctrinaire colleagues who symbolized Britain's New Order. But after he became Foreign Secretary, Bevin roared: "Everyone is expecting me to change our policy. They forget that facts never change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The First Failure | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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