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Word: newports (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Humphrey Heidtmann's decision in the heavyweight match gave the varsity wrestlers a 20 to 15 victory over B.U. in the Blockhouse Saturday, while Howie Houston's freshmen swarmed all over the U.S. Naval School of Newport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, Yardling Wrestlers Down BU, Naval School | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Pickett puts his wrestlers on display before the home crowd for the first time this afternoon, when they oppose Boston University at 3 p.m. in the Block-house. The varsity match will be preceded by a bout which sends the freshmen against the U.S. Naval School of Newport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams, B.U. Meet Squash Team, Wrestlers; Sextet Loses | 12/16/1950 | See Source »

Status Quo. In Newport News, Va., Railway Owner W. C. King Jr. took on a new partner, Jeff L. Robins, heralded the event in the local Daily Press: "You will receive the same lousy service . . . probably even higher prices, and the only real difference is that Jeff shares in the profits, if any, or has to make up part of the losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...palavering onetime vaudeville comic, who toured with Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, retired 25 years ago to manufacture soap, plugged chewing gum on the radio, emerged from retirement last year to play in Mae West's Diamond Lil; of a heart ailment; in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...bleakest moments in the Korean fighting last September, the Defense Department took over the 48,000-ton United States, standing one-third finished at Newport News, Va. and announced that the ship (biggest passenger vessel ever built in the U.S.) would be converted into a carrier for troops. Last week, without giving any reason, Defense Secretary George Marshall returned the ship to its owner, the United States Lines, told the line to go ahead and finish its $70 million dreamboat as a luxury liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Needed | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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