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Word: nails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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With three games left, the Crimson's record stands at 17-4, and the team could be the second in Harvard hockey annals to win 20 games in a single season. Now 6-1 in the Ivy League, the varsity should soon nail down its seventh championship in the last nine years...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Hockey Varsity to Face Bulldogs In Crucial Contest at New Haven | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

Last week Rutgers seemed to be up to old tricks. Sporting an 8-0 record and the championship of the eight-team Middle Atlantic Conference, they were favored by two points to defeat Ivy League Co-Champion Columbia in their 1961 finale and, after 93 long years, to nail down their first undefeated season. They had a solid line, the East's best center in hard-hitting, hard-nosed Team Captain Alex Kroll, and a backfield that combined speed, drive and deft ball handling. Coaches thought enough of the team to rate it among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doing for Dear Old Rutgers | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...road he runs over a nail. Psssssssss, no car. Psssssssss, no highway. The hero lies injured on the non-road. A plug pops out of his thumb and psssssssss, no hero. Nothing left, just the nail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Psssssssss | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...Perhaps the easiest way to understand the principle is to remember that at any point on a saddle a straight line may be drawn which does not leave the surface, as it would, for example, with a sphere. And where the geometrician can draw straight lines, the carpenter can nail planks...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Felix Candela | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Almost unnoticed behind the ominous headlines last week, the varied slogans of the U.S. press continued to make one unimpeachable claim: nowhere else do front pages support so rich a top dressing of hyperbole. Rare is the U.S. paper that Forgoes the opportunity to nail a brag to its masthead. The Denver Post celebrates the CLIMATE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. The Atlanta Journal COVERS DIXIE LIKE THE DEW. The Fairbanks News-Miner is AMERICA'S FARTHEST NORTH DAILY PAPER; the Miami News, THE BEST NEWSPAPER UNDER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maxims & Moonshine | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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