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Word: hooke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity came back to go ahead, 51 to 48, at the 4:40 mark. Bombing away from up to 35 feet, the 5 ft., 7 in. guard hit three quickies to bring the Crimson within one point, and then Captain Bob Repetto scored on a jump shot and a hook off Downs for the lead points...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Yale Downs Varsity Five, 82-71; Harrington Ends Career With 27 | 3/5/1959 | See Source »

Automatic Fisherman. An automatic, spring-triggered fishing-rod holder for lazy or busy fishermen was put on the market by Automatic Fish Rod Manufacturing of Detroit. The holder can be adjusted for small, medium and heavy fish, automatically snaps to a vertical position and sets the hook at any bite on the line. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...right" Cordiner informs us: "Civilization is moved forward by restless people, not by those who are satisfied by things as they are." G.E. better retire that boy. He's about to become a democrat, or even worse, a Democrat. Bet the board lets him off the hook when he explains that "civilization" only means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...taller man, try to block up the middle on his drives. Baylor has quickly adapted himself to the rough tactics of the pros. Says St. Louis Coach Ed Macauley: "When he's dribbling with his right hand, just watch his left hand. He uses it like a meat hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Young Pro | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...Jersey's Diamond County Home for the Aged begins on the day of the annual August fair. The oldsters awake to find little tin name plates tacked to their wicker porch chairs. Gregg, a 70-year-old rebel without a cause, splenetically pries his tag loose. The philosophic Hook, an old man's old man of 94, observes mildly of Gregg's feat that workmanship is not what it once was. The armchair rebellion merely saddens Conner, the poorhouse prefect. A self-punishing do-gooder, Conner needs the inmates' gratitude to mirror his righteousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Do-Gooder Undone | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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