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Word: pivots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pivot Attack...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Basketball Team Improves Steadily | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...squad that meets Tufts Saturday at the blockhouse should have Bill Prior or lanky Ed Smith at center. Smith has looked effective in practice this fall, and Shepard will probably team him with Prior or John Rockwell in a frequent two-man-pivot formation. John Stevenson, who came up from last year's fast freshman team, also should see some work under the basket...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Basketball Team Improves Steadily | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson players, pared don to 21 Friday following a probably final cut, showed well in the scrimmage; they scored easily against a weaker MIT defense. Shepard frequently centered his offense on a double pivot, pairing two of his three tall men, Bill Prior, John Rockwell, and Ed Smith, in the slot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shepard Quintet Scrimmages Tech In long Workout | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into his own swats, Leftfielder Kiner uses the same delicate combination that is found in a perfect golf swing-pivot, wrist-snap and timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pride of the Pirates | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Romeo and Juliet," in which Mr. Evans and Miss Best, as a famous and fabulous theatrical couple, play the title parts between miscellaneous interruptions in the course of the rehearsal. The play parodies the ingrown frame of mind often found in the theater where the world would seem to pivot on a chalk mark in the center of the stage. The humor, which is reminiscent of vandeville in its pacing and gags, stems from the contrast between life backstage and the rehearsing of Shakespeare's tragedy. Corny but amusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

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