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Word: mc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half wore on, both Griff Mc-Clellan and his substitute, Jack Foker, fouled out, McClellan with 12 points. But the 6 ft., 8 in. center was not effective off the boards, and this was the key to Yale's win. The Ellis out-rebounded the varsity...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Elis Down Quintet in New Haven; Dartmouth Rally Tops Sextet, 4-2 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...seventeen ragged minutes in the second period, play raged with nothing but an occasional offside whistle, before each side exploded with a sterling offensive play. With Dan Dolan of B.U. resting in the penalty box after tripping Mc- Laughlin, Fischer broke around the defense on the left and shot on Tanner. The puck bounced off the backboard, but the center grabbed his own rebound and stuffed it in the cage...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crimson Sextet Ties B.U., 5-5; Fischer Stars With Three Goals | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

Married. Alice Hay Wadsworth, 78, widow of New York Republican Senator (1915-27) and Representative (1933-51) James W. Wadsworth, daughter of John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's biographer and Secretary of State for both William Mc-Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt, mother of Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations James J. Wadsworth; and Jackson H. Boyd, 68, retired businessman; in Geneseo, N.Y. Among Mrs. Wadsworth's attendants: her daughter Evelyn, wife of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed for "it's strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent M. Mc-Namara promised that the signs would be replaced-when the zoo had enough money-but not, some thought, until the sign-painting creatures in the monkey house got a better grasp of spelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hot Spell at the Zoo | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...technician from Yale, taking a summer course in music, lived up to his fame for facile improvisation. Every time that something went wrong, the cry of "Mc Goo, fix it" went up. And he did. He manufactured a stage plug out of a piece of wood and scraps of copper wire, and he managed to rewire half the Harvard Union in an afternoon...

Author: By Michael Abramovitz and Ruth Roberts, S | Title: Summer Theatre Group Relates Problems Involved in Production | 8/14/1958 | See Source »

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