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Word: les (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Amateur Indoor Championships at New York, Dale Junta, first man on Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team, won a long three-set match from Les Dodson in the first round, before bowing to Eddie Moylan, 6-4, 11-9, in the second. Moylan is one of America's top-ranked players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heckscher Reaches Quarters of National Squash Championship | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

France's Composer Francis Poulenc, 58, built a solid reputation as the composer of sophisticated vocal works, frothy, impudent ballets and opera such as Les Mamelles de Tirésias* which gaily urged its audience to "make babies now as you never have before." Sobered by his wartime experience in the resistance, he turned increasingly to more austere works, three years ago undertook an opera based on the late Georges Bernanos' reverent drama The Dialogues of the Carmelites. In one of its rare premières of modern opera, Milan's La Scala put Poulenc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dialogues of Poulenc | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...passwork on all three lines was most always perfect. Les Duncan continues to show constant improvement and against Brown his good hockey thinking was particularly effective with wings Maurice Balboni and Dave Holmes on the third line...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Varsity Sextet Bows to BU, Tops Brown | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Les Artistes. In Milwaukee, Union Regional Director John Zinos opposed consolidation of garbage and trash collections on the ground that garbage collectors are "specialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Obviously relaxed, the varsity went to work. The third line also took up the pace and looked very sharp, particularly sophomore Les Duncan, who has vastly improved, and senior Dave Holmes. The final tallies came from the sticks of Fischer, at 12:03, and Bob Cleary, at 19:13 on a breakaway...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Crimson Sextet Wins Holiday Tournament | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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