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Word: heaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frost is outstandingly the greatest living American poet, and his works will appear in anthologies of English poetry when the ridiculous stuff of the Eliots and the Audens has been relegated to the literary rubbish heap where it belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...pursuit. Inside a railway tunnel ten miles north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush. Another pile of 15 lay sprawled in a cornfield. Others lay in a mass grave by the railroad tracks. General Allen counted 68 dead. There were 21 survivors, who were immediately flown to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Train | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...other old time greats are taking hard knocks from this new high-pressure game too. Notre Demo also has been jolted from the top of the heap, losing to a couple of johuny-come-lately squads like Purdue and Indiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gone Are the Days | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Malahide poked into an old croquet box, found more. In 1931, a third cache was uncovered in Scotland's Fettercairn House, squirreled away in storerooms and a nursery cupboard. In 1937, a fourth find was made at Malahide, and two years later another, this time in a heap of papers stored over an unused stable. Last week, to slightly winded Boswell scholars around the world, came word of Find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: All In? | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...dust. Vag lifted it and opened it carefully to "Why I am a Marxist" again. He started reading, and paused for a minute to look over his shoulder. Then he quickly crouched over the box, dug into the pile with his free hand, and slipped the book into the heap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/29/1950 | See Source »

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