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Word: feets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program manager of the university radio station. In addition to the first floor rooms, A.T.O. has too floors of dormitory and study rooms, and a bar in the basement. Members of the fraternity and pledges are busy constructing steps from the house to a parking lot a few hundred feet down south Mountain...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Lehigh: Mountain Monolith Of 'Cultured' Engineering | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...might say that the reason Harvard seems still to think works of American authors measly and a poor man's literature, is the fact of inertia. That ponderous old Harvard, like a fat man who can't see his feet, hasn't gotten around to local material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Native Neglect | 10/8/1958 | See Source »

...makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy concubine" in the first of several "Zen Free Love Lunacy orgies." Rucksack Revolution. This may explain why Ray drags his sneakered feet a bit when the boys finally start climbing the Matterhorn in the Sierra Nevada. This climb, which occupies about a fourth of The Dharma Bums, is a writer's set piece, a hymn to nature. Kerouac's poetic imagery of towering snowscapes, frosty-breathed dawns, star-drugged nights suggests that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yabyum Kid | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...could hardly believe his eyes. Thousands of locals filled the square, making it impossible to get within one hundred yards of the bandstand. He managed to fight his way to a point directly behind the bandstand by about 150 yards and, what was more important, a few feet in front of the Alamo Bar and Grill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remember the Alamo | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

Daily the newly formed cast trooped into a screening room in Hollywood's Television City, watched thousands of feet of newsreels. Douglas took notes when he noticed Stalin slipping a hand into his tunic or holding it behind his back; Gomez grinned and grunted along with Malenkov as he raised a glass at a Kremlin party. Gradually, as rehearsals wore on, the story took shape: the fierce old Georgian, breaking up his Politburo in an effort to divide and maintain control; the purge of Jewish doctors on a trumped-up charge of poisoning the General Staff; Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Who Is the Brute? | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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