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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elis were generally more subject to poke-checks than the Crimson, as they skated and stick-handled less forcefully. Three of four times, though, they were presented with breakaways when the defense failed on checks...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Team Victorious Over Yale, 2-1 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27--David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, talked with enthusiasm today about workers spending less time in mills. But he said the USW policy makers must decide if reduced work schedules will be an issue in forthcoming contract negotiations with the basic steel firms...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Macmillan Calls Parley Valuable, Has Little Hope for Berlin Truce; McDonald Favors Shorter Hours | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

Dermot McNamara plays him as a foolish fellow indeed, pleased but generally unable to cope with the greatness so suddenly thrust upon him. In the process he becomes even more bedraggled and gormless than the natives, and makes it incredible that anyone, much less a bright scornful girl like Pegeen Mike, could call him a lad with "a mighty spirit in him and a gamey heart...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Playboy of the Western World | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

These farces come from Renaissance Spain, medieval France, and seventeenth century Denmark. This is almost enough to restore one's faith in the doctrine of progress: nearly everything good about the occasion is supplied by Eliot House, which is, after all, more or less of a twentieth century institution. Since, on top of everything else, the translations tend towards the unspeakable, it was actors and directors vs. plays all evening. I scored it a loss, a draw...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...Master Pierre Patelin is an ancient and anonymous French piece beloved of high school French teachers, who are not in all respects exactly like the rest of us. The complicated plot concerns a disreputable lawyer who cheats others and who is himself cheated, and never would intrigue have been less intriguing, except for an excellent actor by the name of John Casey. Mr. Casey sweats not, neither does he strain. He plays the shifty Patelin as one of those people who, when they are not leaning against something, contrive somehow to appear to be leaning against themselves; relaxed, charming...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

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