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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Larkin struck out 17 men and gave up only five hits yesterday as the JV nine trounced Brandeis, 9 to 2. Larkin was superb throughout the game and pitched one-hit ball for the last six innings. Less than half the Brandeis batters hit the ball into fair territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Baseball Team Beats Brandeis, 9-2 | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...athletics are to remain the province of less than the entire student body, they must become as nearly self-supporting as possible. After all, subsidy is a nasty word, and an expensive burden for many students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports on the Cuff | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...earlier movie, this one has to do with the sexual frustrations of Joanne Woodward, here playing young Quentin. This role is considerably less subtle and sophisticated, alternating between petulance and passion with monotonous regularity. The latter emotion vents itself on Stuart Whitman, the roustabout in a travelling carnival, whom she meets climbing down off the shoot-the-shoot, finding herself five minutes later in the first of several sweaty love scenes...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Sound and the Fury | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...attractive of the two, because of his curious morality of anti-morality ("I tell you evil is beautiful"). Judd becomes a kind of ignoble Hamlet, a boy of "superior intellect" ill-adapted to a slick world of Stutz-Bearcats, bootlegged gin, and flappers. Artie, who dares him on, commands less sympathy, but lends a certain amount of humor in his badgering of the police and elaborately contrived lying...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Compulsion | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...Massachusetts men, Kal Pollen and Chris Clark, are three and four. Less experienced and lacking the polished ground strokes of the first two, both, however, are hard fighters and move well. Clark has a large reserve of power to draw from when he is able to control his strokes better than at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

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