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Word: junks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precipitation holds off, Whitelaw will start pitcher Dick Oehler, a junk-ball left hander. Oehler has been very successful in games earlier this spring and may well give the Crimson batters a trying afternoon. Last year he was responsible for shutting out Harvard with two hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Plays M.I.T. Today; Johnson, Oehler to Pitch | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

...four or five men. To mount last week's concert, Price had to rent some of his gaudier noisemakers, but one favorite set of instruments he already had on hand: the eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums that he picked up two years ago in an automobile junk yard. Still missing from the ensemble's instrument list: the jawbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Variations on a Brake Drum | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...serious blow in this department was the recent loss of left-handed junk-baller Gerry Emmet. Emmet had two or three fine games to his credit last year and might have been the top Crimson pitcher this spring. However, he injured his shoulder playing for the squash team during the winter months, and is now a very shaky prospect at best...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

...alone, when he arrived in 1906 from Russia. A gnome of a man, Charles Fraiman put a pack on his back and peddled old clothes from door to door in the outskirts of Philadelphia, until he had enough money to buy a horse and wagon and go into the junk business. He used to say he made $1.50 a day-50? for his horse, 50? for himself, and 50? for his savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Collection of Half-Dollars | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...wells up around Beneatha, a girl of earnest intellectual fads. When a Nigerian boy friend introduces her to a bit of African lore, she promptly decks herself out as "the queen of the Nile," and whirls across the room to click off a jazz program ("Enough of this assimilationist junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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