Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's varsity wrestling squad was a powerhouse on pre-season paper, it was a tremendous disappointment in actual competition. Through a nerve-wracking series of misfortunes and near-misses, Coach Robert A. Pickett's men wound up with a 5-6 season mark, and a miserable 1-5, good for last place, in the Ivy League...
...Hungarian-born Joseph Peter Vajk, 16, is news editor of the Princeton (N.J.) high school paper, and has a lead role in a school play. He won $3,000 with a paper theorizing that fallout will speed up human evolution...
Trimble finally got permission to work on his own time going over congressional payrolls. His efforts began paying off Jan. 5, when the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain broke his detailed story charging that "at least one of every five lawmakers has some kinfolk on his staff...
...machine figured what would have happened had an investor put an average $500 a year into a stock every year since 1929-about $15,500 in all. Had he bought Alcoa, his shares would be worth $115,850, and he would have pocketed $17,158 in cash dividends-a paper profit of $117,373 before taxes. Other top gainers on the same basis...
...meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy horror, the surgical boot, the clubfoot," she decides that he is the Devil. When she reads in the paper that the little girl has been murdered, Hilary is sure "the Devil...