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Word: outfit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Bruce Munro and his 1952 squad have changed things. Playing under these same abysmal conditions, this Crimson outfit held Maryland to a mere six goals (1951 score: 14 to 2; 1950: 17 to 2) and almost beat Navy, barely losing, 8 to 7 (1951 score...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

...spite of these fascinating, fashionable styles in jewelery, the emphasis at the Annex remains essentially conservative and jewels are worn to complement and complete, not overshadow an outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhinestones, Corals Shells Grace Girls, Magnetize Men | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

Instead of the frayed and buttonless clothes which he wears around the home palace grounds to save money, the miserly Nizam wore a well-pressed and spotless outfit-yellow turban, tweed coat, loose white trousers and black shoes. He peeled $1,000 off his own bundle (at least $200 million), laid in a supply of tea, cakes, nuts, ice cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: It's Only Money | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Branford's sextet, playing their second game in two days, just couldn't keep up with the Winthrop outfit, which won the House league title in a play-off with Dudley last week. The Puritans, sparked by the play of goalie Rog Taylor, were six goals up before Branford could manage to score, and at one point in the third period had a 9 to 3 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abbott Scores 4, as Puritan Six Trounces Branford at Yale, 10-5 | 3/22/1952 | See Source »

Himself a company commander of a British outfit in the early Burma fighting, Author Baxter writes with authority and unblinking candor. His book is not for the squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Under Pressure | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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