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Word: giant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown football squad, cast in the role of giant-killers since its 12-8 upset of league-leading Cornell last Saturday, will square off this afternoon with a Crimson team fighting to regain the form it showed in bagging its own giant, Dartmouth, three weeks ago. Kick-off in the Stadium is scheduled...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Bruins Six Point Favorite To Defeat Crimson Today | 11/15/1958 | See Source »

...comparatively simple protein. But Sanger's patience and skill eventually found the place of each in the long chain. Then he reassembled the fragments and learned how the chain is folded over and locked together. At last he had the first full picture of one of the giant molecules that are the stuff of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...second quarter, Brown plowed off left tackle, seemed hopelessly buried in a cloud of Giant defenders, then suddenly squirted free and outfooted the secondary to race 58 yards to a touchdown. But the Giants ganged up on Jimmy after that, held him to only 113 yards rushing (v. an average 163 a game to date), considered their afternoon's labor well spent as they upset the Browns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brown of the Browns | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's giant strength and giant sprawl, in a long-ago tale of a boozing innkeeper-well-played by Eric Portman-and his shattered pose of being a fine gentleman. With Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Time of the Giants. Along the receding frontiers, the war and postwar years were a time of giant strides and the expenditure of staggering sums for new aluminum plants, paper and pulp mills, bridges and roads. One of B.C.'s fastest moving entrepreneurs is Frank M. McMahon, 54, who waited, checkbook in hand, one morning in August 1947, when the province opened a land office in Victoria, to parcel out oil prospecting rights in the untested Peace River country. Chairman of the board of Calgary's fast-moving Pacific Petroleums Ltd., McMahon paid $1,800,000 for drilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: CANADA: British Columbia at 100 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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