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Word: facings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goldman at wingback, the Tiger backfield is among the toughest the Crimson will face this season. In the same manner that Ravenel has deceived the opposition this year by having halfback Chet Boulris throw sporadic passes, Princeton will deceive the Crimson...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Crimson Challenges Slightly Favored Tigers; 35,000 Expected to Attend Last Home Game | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Some of these reports were unimpressively written and badly argued, but the critical and disturbing problem is their inability to face the real issues instead of discussing personal concerns. Most students realize that parietal hours are not very well adapted to dating habits. But few, except students, are concerned with this. As usual, a Council committee has missed the point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Boat Missed | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

Although officials expect that deconversion will cause no over-all raise in rent during the coming academic year, students who choose to live in deconverted rooms will face some increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tower rooms Will Ease Space Needs in Houses | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

...Bach Society Orchestra played its first concert of the year with verve and discretion, though the fare offered was surprisingly light. Perhaps the orchestra's conductor, John Harbison, is thinking of the taxing problems he will face in preparing a Bach cantata for the next program. At any rate, the Haydn symphony (No. 8) performed on Sunday was charming, if slight, and an interesting example of a classical piece with baroque devices still hanging on. No. 8 is part symphony, part concerto grosso, employing a harpsichord and three solo strings; the solo'cello was played with particular suavity and grace...

Author: By Edgar Murray, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

...similar question is raised about the novel's hero, Physicist Sebastian Bloch, in whom readers will find it hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries no party card. Young Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oedipus at Los Alamos | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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