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Word: junks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keeny was so ashamed and so frightened by the publicity that he threatened to punch Reporter Larkin. The afternoon before the fight, one of Keeny's cynical compatriots sneered: "Going to take some junk into the ring with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Little One | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), a small private amphibian, and was $7,000,000 in the red. To make matters worse, American Airlines and Pan American Airways canceled orders for the four-engine Rainbow transport, the only transport orders Republic had. Then Peale took his first gamble; he decided to junk the Seabee program, stop trying for civilian orders, and stake Republic's future on Government contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Through the Sonic Barrier | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Littauer should not junk the extension program, for it is most valuable in its field. Nor can it stiffen its admissions requirements, for the extensioneers should be chosen primarily for their agricultural, not their scholarly ability. What Littauer can tamper with, however, is the doctor's degree itself. If the degree clearly indicated that the extension doctorate was in agricultural studies alone, there could be no complaints that standards were being diluted. For the farm educators' purposes, this qualification would rub no shine off their sheepskins. And it would close a loophole through which many academically average students have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close the Barn Door | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Both squads will use the T-formation on the offense. Shepard employed it exclusively two weeks ago against the Tigers, and will probably junk his three-team system for this contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Battles Once Defeated Eli Jayvees on Near-Even Terms | 11/21/1952 | See Source »

Miracle in Milan might seem like a humorous bit of Communist propaganda, if it were not for all the supernatural. Its characters are takeoffs on a decadent capitalistic population. The rich industrialists are all bleated and jewlish, which the proletariat is grubby but unbowed, dancing around junk heaps with fixed, there fund smiles. As party line literature, it runs close in the line, until the end, when capitalism bows not to strength and indignation but to an unprepossessing miracle maker...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Miracle in Milan | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

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