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Word: propped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bray scored his third goal on a screen shot into the upper left hand corner midway in the last period. Jim Colt tapped in a pass from Fred Horween to tie the game, but the prop-schoolers tallied the winning goal shortly thereafter from a scramble in front of the cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Hockey Team Bows, 5-4, To Belmont Hill; Bray Scores Three | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

They are both pathetic. I have had both better material and better teachers at Prop school than those connected with these emasculated survey courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. E. Courses Pathetic | 11/28/1950 | See Source »

Lolling in his Cuban farmhouse, dressed only in shorts and a highball, Ernest Hemingway posed as a hairy-chested prop for a fashion picture in Vogue. Referring to him as "a famous presence in Cuba," the caption was mostly concerned with the model's lavender silk get-up and straw shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Golden Moments | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

When completed, the movie will he available for showing to high school and prop school students, alumni, and any others who might be interested in the College. "The March of Time" may distribute the film through its agencies, if it considers it good enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'March of Time' Starts Film About Undergraduates' Life | 10/24/1950 | See Source »

...charms of modern Hellas is that everyone plays the national game of kani politiki (making politics). A fixture of the scene in an Athens café or in any village taverna is at least one Greek spread over five chairs (a prop for each arm, one for each foot and one to sit on), waiting for his vari gliko (strong, sweet coffee), and noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Kani Politiki | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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