Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat set the varsity's Ivy League record back to 2-3 (3-4 overall), but neither the Crimson squad nor the Harvard partisans among the game's 35,000 spectators had anything to be ashamed of in connection with this performance...
TIME Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin set something of a speed record with his portrait of John XXIII. He began painting the minute he heard the news, worked through the night, finished the next morning, in good time for the picture to be flown from his Connecticut studio to the engraving and printing plant in Chicago...
Connecticut: In a record-busting burst of bipartisanship, voters handed Incumbent Abraham Ribicoff, 48, the biggest plurality for a Democrat in state history -and his second term...
...Manhattan with a new play, Britain's Angry Young Success John Osborne looked back with pleasure on his previous record with U.S. critics. "I've actually been more respected here," said the 28-year-old playwright of The Entertainer and Look Back in Anger. "At home I feel like Julius Caesar going into the Forum . . . In this American century-because it has the American look and the American accent-the cry at home now is that I've sold out to the Yankee dollar...
...Record. The son of a sometime professional fighter. Jimmy attended Manhasset High School on Long Island, averaged 14.9 yards a try as a senior halfback, 38 points a game for the basketball team, set a school high-jump record (6 ft. 3 in.), pitched and played first base for the baseball team. After sifting 45 scholarship offers, he chose Syracuse, majored in sociology, put on a spectacular one-man show in the 1957 Cotton Bowl by scoring three touchdowns, booting three conversions against Texas Christian in a 28-27 losing cause...