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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The first half started slowly--and fairly evenly--but at the 12 minute mark Yale's fast break began to click, and two quick baskets by Downs broke an 18-18 deadlock. From that point on, the Elis steadily pulled ahead until they went off the floor with a 35...

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

Doubtless, much will depend on the performance of Harrington, who currently is the second most proficient scorer in the Ivy League. Harrington had a brilliant season as a sophomore, but fell off badly last year, due to illness. Restored to health once again this winter, he started slowly, but in...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: 12 Teams Prepare for Meets This Week | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

The Crimson is a slim favorite here--assuming, as always, that it has had sufficient time to shake off the trauma incurred in two losses immediately prior to the exam period. The first of these was an 11-1 shellacking at the hands of a brilliant squad of professional amateurs...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: 12 Teams Prepare for Meets This Week | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

Anna Lucasta (Longridge; United Artists), in the course of its on-again, off-again success story, has suffered more color changes than a traffic light. As first written, back in 1936, Anna was a backstreets melodrama in which Playwright Philip Yordan rummaged among some white trash in a small town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Chained Lion. Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped. In his defiance of society, Byron had the backing of Newstead Abbey and of a hard, aristocratic realism. Poe fought blind. The search for identity was complicated in Poe's case by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poltergeist in the Parlor | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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