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Word: kansan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Same as Chemistry. Time after time, Georgia-born Bill Spivey grabbed off Kansas passes intended for Lovellette. Once he stole the ball right out of the Kansan's hands, dribbled the length of the floor to score. By half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12. The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding. Spivey himself had scored 22 points (high for the game). When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready & Loaded | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...with their big whirring rotors hover over the rugged battlefields, bringing supplies to cut-off units or rescuing the wounded from isolated spots that could not have been reached any other way. One of the men flying the 'copters is Lieut, (j.g.) Charles Jones, a 28-year-old Kansan. Not long ago Lieut. Jones took off from the cruiser Rochester to find and rescue a Corsair fighter pilot who had been shot down over North Korea. The Navy does not consider it safe to use helicopters for night flying and Jones knew it would be dark before he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Story of a Helicopter | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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