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Word: nelsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named the seminary's outstanding student, was president of the student body (the first Negro so honored), and earned a chance to go on to Boston University for his Ph.D. His doctoral thesis: A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...modern U.S. architecture is now dividing between the skeletal slabs on one hand and voluminous concrete-shell structures on the other, so is the architects' furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architects' Furniture | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...first fall came in 2:40 of the first period of the 137-lb. bout, when Bob Cook, already holding a five to nothing point advantage, caught Penn's Dennie Hurley in a half nelson with crotch grip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Beats Weak Penn Wrestlers, 27-3, For Second Ivy Win | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Columbia's Al Oppenheimer registered the only fall of the meet, as he pinned King Holmes, at 157, with a half-nelson at 2:29 of the third period. Holmes had held the advantage up until that point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Overcomes Columbia Wrestlers By 4 Point Margin | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...other Crimson fall came in the 177-pound class, where Bob Foster threw Jerry Morgan in 4:27, also with a half-nelson. The extended his unbeaten string to fourth straight this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Outclass Amherst | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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