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Word: fan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davidson College is an educational paradox. Trying to fan the flames of a 116-year-old liberal tradition, the college at the same time demands an almost rigid conformity from each of its 800 students...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Davidson--Stress Conformity, Academic Rigor | 11/1/1952 | See Source »

...chairman of Roosevelt's education department to become founder, principal and only teacher of something called the Ding Dong School. Today, Ding Dong has hundreds of pre-kindergarten pupils, all of whom attend television classes five mornings a week. By last week, Ding Dong was getting so much fan mail (more than 100 letters a day) that station WNBQ decided to keep its experimental school open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher on TV | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...countess stroll attractively through their roles. One of the Bursley townsfolk remarks of Denry: "He's a rare 'un . . . But what's he done? Has he ever done a day's work in his life? What great cause is he identified with?" Replies a Denry fan: "He's identified with the great cause of cheering us all up." Guinness fans are likely to applaud the sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 27, 1952 | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Green is backed by a fine company, Robert Eccles plays the proud Pooh-Bah with corpulent pomposity, elegantly waving a fan the size of a Venetian blind. A suitably menacing Mikado, Joseph Macaulay, handles Gilbert's lyrics deftly as he gloats of his plan "to make the punishment fit the crime...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: The Mikado | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

After they had begun hammering away, the impression still held good, but a delicate question had been added: Exactly who was made for whom? The Series itself was a fan's dream, a succession of cliffhanging, hand-wringing games full of melodramatic feats of hitting, fielding and pitching. It produced two blown-in-the-bottle heroes: Dodger Centerfielder Duke Snider, who hit four home runs in the first six games, and Yankee First Baseman Johnny Mize, the oldest (39) player on the field, who delivered a pinch-hit homer, muscled into the regular lineup, and golfed two more into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seesaw Series | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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