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Word: fed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forbes made sure on his second rebound at 12:15 after Dick Reilly carried the puck into the zone and shot from the right alley. Forbes' first rebound was just stopped by Tanner, but Crocker Snow fed back to the right wing for the goal...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Terriers Edge Sextet In Third Period, 3-2; Marquis Scores Two | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

Like many state universities, the University of Kentucky admits any state resident with a high school diploma. Not long ago the fed-up faculty "felt it advisable," said President Frank G. Dickey, "to do something to stimulate the students." So the university decreed that all freshmen must maintain C-average grades, and that any frosh who failed to do so for two semesters would be bounced. Next year all students will have to stay above C level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Deep Blue C | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Over the River. When he was 16, Harry got fed up, left George Washington High School, and six months later joined the U.S. Navy. The experience, he remembers, was "like taking a deep breath." Assigned in 1944 to an all-Negro unit, many of whose members were college graduates, he became interested for the first time in Negro history. The other highlight of his naval career was his meeting with a well-to-do Negro girl named Frances Marguerite Byrd, who was a student at Virginia's Hampton Institute, where Harry was in training. He immediately recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...four brides' traditionally exquisite silk saris, and the bridegrooms' jeweled turbans. Stripped of party gaud, the go-minute wedding ceremony took on added religious significance, from the sound of the Sanskrit scripture chanted by four pandits to the odor of marigold garlands and the glow of incense-fed fires. Said one happy new father-in-law: "Under normal procedure, this marriage would have cost about $4,200." Under the new procedure, he paid only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moneyless Marriage | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...convinces his fiancee's respectable family that he is on a supersecret Government mission. Still, he is forced to admit to himself that his double life is vapid: "Nothing is wrong with my days, but they are pallid and dull me ... I am not undernourished but I am fed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Heel | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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