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Word: lustered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the victims of the Browns this year, in exhibition and regular-season games, have been such longtime N.F.L. powerhouses as the Chicago Bears (27-23) and the champion Philadelphia Eagles (35-10). This week, though it added no special luster to their record, the Browns scalped aging (35) Sammy Baugh and his down-at-heel Washington Redskins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big-League Browns | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...unfortunate that Louis could not have remained retired; that would have been far more fitting. But Louis does not lose a great deal of luster by his defeat, for posterity will remember him as the patient, deadly stalker. There will be heavyweight boxing champions for decades to come, a fact which will become easier to accept as the years pass. Right now it is not so easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: End of an Era | 9/30/1950 | See Source »

...redeem his son's honor, and Margaret Leighton matches it as the daughter who loses her stuffy fiance when the case plunges the family into notoriety. Neil North ably fills the title role. With the help of British dependables in lesser parts, the stars give the film a luster that shines only fleetingly in the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 10, 1950 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...failure. Comparison of the three gives some measure of his gifts and shortcomings. A Bell for Adano's strength was its immediate relevance to a situation faced by the Allied Military Government in Italy. Time and changes in the situation have worn much of the book's luster away. Author Hersey's gift is that of the true newspaperman: the ability to report, on the scene and under pressure, the feelings, happenings, circumstances and significance of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ashes of 0 Warsaw | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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