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Word: rams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under the pressure of the big-time operators, football [is] becoming more savage, vicious and dangerous each season . . . leading to a brutalization of players and spectators alike." As a prime example of capitalist brutality at work, Low recalled the cheer of his own Brooklyn high school (Brooklyn Technical): "Ram 'em, bam 'em, rock 'em, sock 'em, hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, c'mon Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Signals Off | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Rams, last year's New England Intercollegiate champs and New England's leading cross-country team for the last three years, had already run in two meets, which included a win over Springfield. Although Ram Ray Lister won the varsity race, and Dick Ahern of Holy Cross was second, the Crimson won by bunching its finishers, placing third, fifth, seventh, eighth, and eleventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Nip Favored Rams, Holy Cross in Opening Meet | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

Rhode Island's freshmen eked out a one-point win over the Crimson, 36 to 37, with the Crusaders' '54 scoring 49. Ram Dom Mitchrony just nipped Yardling Emil San Souci in the last quarter-mile by 3.5 seconds, with Harvard's Hubert Maguire finishing third. Hal Gerry placed fifth, Bruce Phillips ninth, and Leo Carroll seventeenth, to round out the Crimson scorers. The freshman course was about three miles, with average times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Nip Favored Rams, Holy Cross in Opening Meet | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

...Professor Frank X. Gassner of Colorado A. & M. found that carefully measured and timed injections of a gonadotrophin a few weeks after lambing could make 100 ewes produce a fall crop of 65 to 85 extra lambs. A control group of 25 ewes without hormone injections was given a ram for company, but only one of them produced an out-of-season lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lamb Control | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...team Azules de Vera Cruz; the Torreón Laguneros were leading the Azules 3 to 1. Torreón's star Negro shortstop, 26-year-old Othello Renfroe of Jacksonville, Fla., rapped a slow roller to second base and tried to beat the throw to first. Umpire Ramón Montes de Oca, 65, cried "Fuera!" (out). In such a situation Shortstop Renfroe, like another celebrated Othello, found himself little blest with the soft phrase of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Othello at the Bat | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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