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Word: rives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekend, madcap Comedienne Bea Lillie, currently whooping it up as the West End's Auntie Mdme, mameishly chartered her own Viscount, took off from London with a slew (38) of friends, including high-spirited Actors Trevor Howard and Charles Laughton. Highlights of the tour: a determined check on rive droite fleshpots, a calorie-laden spread at the Tour d'Argent, a gleeful reunion with another Mame, Greer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...free on bail, though two of his companions, both Algerian, were kept shut up in prison. Whatever the price of his freedom, Marcel Leopold was called upon last week to pay it. Bound homeward for lunch at his roomy third-floor apartment on Geneva's sunny Cours de Rive, he staggered through the door, fell into his wife's arms muttering, "I've been poisoned!", and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Murder, Foreign Style | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Leverett eight, stroked by junior Gerry Schade, defeated Dunster, defending champion Eliot--ten times winner of the House crown--Kirkland, and Lowell by open water over the smooth Charles Rive. Winning time for the mile race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Crew Wins Its First Title In 24 Years of House Competition | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

...better thermostat, but gives him, instead, all the principles he will need to know in thermodynamics. No matter what their courses, Supple and Andelin learned by solving problems, and the steps they took in their solutions were far more important than their answers. Theoretically, a Caltech student may ar rive at all the wrong answers on exams, and still get passing marks if his professor believes that his thinking is sound. The whole idea, says Biologist George Beadle, is to avoid "the descriptive tech nique, which is just learning things by rote. In the analytical approach, you learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Purists | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Against Wesleyan, all ten Crimson players won their matches, with only one going to five games. Tomes, Wister, Ward, Rauh, Rose, Garrigue, and Brown won straight three-game wins. Brownell and Paschal each won in four and Stone clinched the shut-out with a rive-game victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squash Team Posts Wins Over Trinity, Wesleyan | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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