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Word: puts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity soccer team will put its claims on the Ivy League championship to the test this afternoon when it meets a rugged Dartmouth squad here at 2 p.m. If the Crimson can defeat the Indians, only Yale should stand in the way of a successful title defense...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Encounters Tough Indian Squad Today | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...modest way (his manner rather suggests a family doctor), Leon Edel has "put to press" more than twenty books during the last twelve years, and read ten thousand of Henry James' letters. Now, during his visit here, he enjoys "peopling the streets of Cambridge" with the figures of that past era he works in and loves...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Biographer and Critic | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

...unfortunately de Gaulle is not dealing with moderate, reasonable people. The majority in France is apathetic and inert, and the majority in Algeria is untutored and incapable of expressing its wishes. So the President must attempt to put his case across on the one side to the F.L.N. rebels and on the other to the Army and the colons of Algiers. The F.L.N. is irrevocably dedicated to complete independence and has carried on a campaign of extermination against its moderate Moslem enemies both in Algeria and in metropolitan France. Soldiers like Massu and extremists like Delbecque are reluctant to give...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Pipeline to Paris | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

Thus de Gaulle's promising formula is still little more than a change de language, as L'Express put it a month ago. The parliamentary vote of confidence last week reflected more expediency than conviction; the Deputies knew that the President could and would dissolve the Chamber if he met defeat. The so-called "Gaullists," right up to Premier Michel Debre, generally prefer continued strong prosecution of the war and eventual "integration...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Pipeline to Paris | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

...indeed. There are thousands of 'its' one can do, but you won't think of them. You could drive down to Gloucester and catch a dolphin, and then put it on your mantle piece with an apple in its mouth. Or you could go to Franklin Park Zoo and watch the seals, they swim all night. But you won't, the House dances are much closer and everyone is going...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Stab the Paper Dragon | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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