Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helping his Yale teammates to rack up their 142nd straight dual-meet victory, Australia's Rex Aubrey swam the fastest 100-yd. free style on record (49 sec.) as Yale beat Harvard...
...Desperate Hours. In Detroit, after an auto drove into his service station, knocked a gas pump off its base, flattened an oil rack, bounced off two other pumps and drove off as one burst into flame, Attendant Floyd Bendel described his plight to police: "I had my hands full trying to keep from getting hit, burned alive or blown...
...eloquent faces of the two young people placed on the rack by the churchmen of England make one wonder if we are not still living in the Dark Ages...
...tavern brawl has troubled historians ever since the record of the inquest was located in 1925. Not until then did scholars learn that Marlowe was stabbed in the presence of three men--all notorious-spies--just before he was to go on trial, and perhaps on the rack, for atheism. Questions immediately arose over the accuracy of the inquest. Could Marlowe have died instantly from the wound described? Why was the confessed murderer pardoned within four weeks by Queen Elizabeth? These questions have led some biographers to conclude that influential men in the government wanted Marlowe, who had also engaged...
...Fate. The Jones biography shows again that Freud was essentially a Dessimist about mankind. "I don't rack my brains much about the problem of good and evil," he once wrote, "but on (he whole I have not found much of the good' in people...