Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School, Thresky began to long for a little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried...
...Crimson finished seventh in this year's Ivy League football standings with a 2-5 record. Princeton led the league, followed by Dartmouth, Yale, Cornell, Brown, and Pennsylvania. Columbia finished eight, and was the only team behind Harvard...
...Treasury. To balance the bad news, the lagging housing industry seemed to be coming out of its slump with construction rates for the past months at 1,000,000 homes annually, up from the low of 930,000 units reached last winter. Last week the Government also forecast a record outlay for overall construction...
...began at Reynolds as a salesman in 1930 while his father was company president, became assistant sales manager in 1939, sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955. A chief stockholder (50,000 shares), he has had a hand in pushing Reynolds sales toward this year's record goal of $1 billion, faces the task of keeping up sales of Winston, now the best-selling filter tip, which is pressed by Kent...
...inscribe "no" on Britannia's forehead. In After the Show, a well-illusioned young public-school type tries to be chivalrous toward a tawdry young girl, only to find that she scarcely knows what he is getting at; his illusions are shattered when she puts an Elvis Presley record on her gramophone. In More Friend Than Lodger, Wilson plots a triangle, not only of marital infidelity but of social insecurity, involving a stuffy publisher, his disarmingly bitchy wife and a handsome sort of literary confidence man-a triangle in which the woman adds up all the angles and makes...