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Word: racks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile, McCurdy will unveil Phil Williams, who appears in the best condition of his indoor career. With Princeton's Bob Zwirner probably sidelined and Pete Reider doubling the varsity could rack in what had appeared a "bust" event. If Zwirner does not compete, the two-mile will be gravy, with Reided a shoo-in, and Dave Norris and Bill Thompson fighting Eli Jack Bogen for the points...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Lame Track Team Will Meet Tiger, Yale | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

...Crusade. Through a three-square-mile area of dour, industrial Birmingham, Potter and his fellow crusaders are swarming in a "saturation campaign" designed to test the chances of evangelizing the segment of Britain that Billy Graham largely failed to reach-the workers. Potter's plan is not to rack up as many "decisions for Christ" as possible, but to stimulate discussion along Christian lines, eventually organize "Christian cells in the factories-Communism in reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity Is Just the Job | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...Oedipus Rack. In Singapore, Them Kim Kow said in court that she had left her husband, but would return if her mother-in-law would stop sleeping under their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Records! Records!" yells the six-year-old with a gleeful face, dragging his mother toward the rack of colored "envelopes in the supermarket. Mother escapes to the grocery department, leaving her son to make his choice. She is barely out of sight when the tot spots a picture of a locomotive on one of the jackets and shrieks. "Ma! Ma! I'm ready!" She returns and exasperatedly says: "You've already got a choo-choo record." Then she scans the rack, and a nostalgic smile crosses her face as she picks up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kidisks, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

M.I.T. should provide a little more competition for the sophomore-laden varsity wrestling team tonight than did Dartmouth last Friday, but there is every indication that the varsity will rack up its second win of the season. The match will begin at 8 p.m., in Tech's Walker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers to Meet M.I.T. | 12/19/1956 | See Source »

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