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Word: passingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Yale point was tallied by manager Chuck Yeager, on a pass from quarterback Ed Molloy. Coach Jordan Oliver had slipped his little manager into the game for one play, and Yeager, wearing No. 99, went almost unnoticed as he caught the aerial on the one-yard line and went over for the score...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...Weld South and Grays Hall battled to a 0-0 tie in touch football. Grays was elected to face the Yale freshman dorm champions because of its 7-6 win over Matthews North, which Weld tied. Grays nearly won the Weld game yesterday in the second period when a pass over the goal line failed because the receiver was beyond the end zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Beats Dunster In Soccer Playoff, 3-1 | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...blatantly erroneous hands penalty on Keyes gave Brown its only tally and pulled the Bruins within reach of the varsity, 2 to 1. When Keyes blocked a Bruin pass with his chest, the referee, standing directly behind him, called hands. The penalty was so preposterous that any sort of protest was obviously useless. Brown halfback Pat Jones then scored on a beautiful penalty kick into the upper right-hand corner of the Crimson goal...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

...coming on the power play," shouted a Tennessee tackle, and a quarter of a ton of Tennessee flesh hit Cannon all at once, stopped him dead. That was the ball game. L.S.U. made twice as many first downs and three times as much yardage, but fumbles, pass interceptions, and Tennessee's alert defense brought L.S.U. its first defeat, ended a 19-game winning streak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...atmosphere, the Fort Monmouth men explained, the atoms of gas are ionized by solar ultraviolet light into positively charged nuclei and negative electrons. Theory suggested that at a certain altitude above the earth this charged plasma should have a sort of elasticity that would permit hydromagnetic waves to pass along it, rather like mechanical waves traveling along a coil spring. The Fort Monmouth scientists found that the Argus explosions started just such waves in a layer of plasma about 1,500 miles high. The waves were about 1,000 miles long, and they traveled at several thousand miles per second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Around the Earth | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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