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Word: nights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four players tallied twice as the varsity completely overpowered the Big Red, which stands 0 and 8 in League competition. Captain Dick McLaughlin, Crocker Snow, Bud Higginbottom, and Dick Fischer each contributed two goals last night at Ithaca...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Crimson Sextet Triumphs Easily | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

...even with the tie, the Tiger fans had good reason to rejoice. Harvard had an eleven game winning streak against Princeton going into the Saturday night contest--a string which started back...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Crimson Sextet Triumphs Easily | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

...Night to Remember. A skillful recreation, based on Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller, of the sinking of the Titanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...makes a point of having a listed telephone number just like the average telephone subscriber-and so do the presidents of his subsidiaries. They also answer their own phones and make their own business calls. Walter Koch, president of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co., sometimes gets up at night to answer his telephone, sometimes finds on the line a drunk who berates him for some imagined wrong. He has heard more than one turn and shout to his fellow tipplers: "Listen to me give hell to the telephone company president!" Says Koch philosophically: "It does them good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Storyteller Masters, Calcutta-born Englishman-turned-American, whose tales of India (Nightrunners of Bengal, Coroman-del!) are full of a mysterious yeast, explains how he hit on Fandango Rock as a title. "Once, in a narrow street in Zaragoza, late at night, there were two radios" -one playing "the subtle, introspective, and uncompromising rhythms of a fandango," the other whanging out "a rock-and-roll, simple, outgoing-and uncompromising." Masters hits his moment of truth with this gone lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cain in Spai | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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