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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saturday's contest started slowly, and midway through the first half sloppy Crimson ballhandling had given the Lions an 18-10 lead. But sparked by two beautiful fast break goals by Dave Grayer on passes from Bowditch, the varsity tallied 12 straight points to gain a lead it never relinquished...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Crimson Upsets Big Red, 67-66, Downs Columbia, 68-65, at I.A.B. | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...challenge, greeted it with respect. President Eisenhower, who had sent no message to the U.S.S.R. about Sputnik I, got off congratulations to the U.S.S.R. scientists for "a great stride forward in man's advance." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson observed that the U.S. is "not going far enough fast enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Cosmic Challenge | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, Jan. 5--Brown ran off nine straight points in overtime here tonight to defeat the varsity quintet, 68 to 63. The game, fast and tense throughout as neither team ever led by more than seven points, evened the season record of both squads at five wins and five losses...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Crimson Quintet Loses To Bruins in Overtime | 1/6/1959 | See Source »

...Fast-developing changes in markets and technology in the U.S. have brought some surprising changes in unions. John L. Lewis, who once could stir up a national crisis with a strike threat from his mighty, 600,000-strong Mine Workers union, is now the boss of a union shrunk to 200,000, and seldom gives cause for alarm. In steel the white-collar percentage in the working force has doubled since 1942 to 18% or 20%, will go up to 33% by 1970. In chemicals it rose from 24% in 1947 to 36% in 1957, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PROBLEM FOR UNIONS: The Rise of the White-Collar Worker | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...periods the U.S. National team, with Army Pvt. Don Cooper of Wrentham in the nets, stood fast in the face of the Russian assault waves. But goals by Igor Dekonskii and Benjamin Aleksandrov within 14 seconds early in the third period broke the game wide open...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: U.S. Amateur Sextet Loses Second Game To Touring Russians | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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