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Word: hunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other two Elephant goals were scored by Hunt Collins and Dean Howells, while Mike Jackson played an outstanding game at the goalie spot. Pacing the Puritans with a goal and an assist was Fritz Drill. The second Winthrop goal was collected by Fran Harding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Elephants Edge Puritan Six, 3-2 | 12/21/1951 | See Source »

Senator Joe McCarthy, whose specialty is combing the files for dirt in his one-man Red hunt, dusted off his typewriter to ask the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections to call off its study of the early McCarthy career. To Chairman Guy Gillette he wrote: "Over the past months it has been repeatedly brought to my attention that a horde of investigators, hired by your committee at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money, has been engaged exclusively in trying to dig up on McCarthy material covering periods of time long before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Formula. Wally ("I gave him that name," says Lila Bell, "and allow others to use it") claims that there is no hard & fast recipe. Says he: "I simply hunt for things that interest me, and if they do, I print them." One of his frequent contributors, Author Louis Bromfield, puts it differently. He thinks the magazine's main appeal is to "intellectual mediocrity" and that Wallace's own "strictly average" mind "completely reflects the mentality of his readers," who like the Digest because "it requires no thought or perception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Common Touch | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...suggests that the stone was used to insure success or offer thanks in the hunt. Perhaps on one occasion, someone carved a picture of an animal on the rock. Since the following hunt was a successful one, the natives believed that the stone was invested with supernatural powers. They began to use it either as a means of insuring good fortune, or of giving thanks for a successful hunt. This theory explains the numerous animals, which include a horse, an ibex, a deer, and a woolly rhinoceros...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pebble Returns to France After Two Years at Harvard | 12/5/1951 | See Source »

...emulate the sly fox that hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along the line an Irish setter got into the act, donating his bright ruddy color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tolling Ducks | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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