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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dick Cleveland, holder of the unofficial world record for the 100-yd. free-style (0:49.6), who took the A.A.U. event in 0:50. ¶Ohio State's Jack Taylor, who edged out Yale's Olympic winner, Allen Stack, in the 100-yd. backstroke by a wrist flip. ¶The N.H.S.C. 400-yd. free-style relay quartet (Dick Thoman, Don Scheff, Bill Farnsworth and Ray Reid), which set a world record 3:23 in the event. Old record: 3:23.8, set by the 1948 N.H.S.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broken Records | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...ballerina can be. But in spite of the excellence of the acting, top honors must go to the script. It wanders from light comedy to near-tragedy a little too easily for comfort, but it handles both moods well. Especially adept is the dialogue, which consists mainly to flip but meaningful Gallic sentiments on life and love...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

After Clasby and Jeb Bray each scored, Crimson defenseman Jeff Coolidge tied up the game on a backhanded flip shot with 39 seconds to play in the second period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BC Freshmen Top Yardling Six, 6-5 | 3/6/1951 | See Source »

...face of the barrages of entertainment fired at them by advertisers, U.S. children have not only retained their sanity and their digestions but kept a deadly critical sense. Millions of them listen to radio and watch television with the same blase attitude with which New York subway riders flip through the sensations recounted in the tabloids. In the last analysis, both the advertiser and the entertainer are at their mercy-with their little fingers still gummy from the last helping of breakfast food, they can turn a button and bring industrial empires tumbling down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Above: Butler does this flip off the wall several times at each practice...

Author: By Roger M. Burke, | Title: Cheerleaders Prepare for Big Tilt | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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