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Word: rossum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running second against Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, Yeomans really turned it on and gave the baton to Luck with a six-yard margin. Luck and Carney added two yards to the final eight-yard edge. The time, a meet record...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Touring Harvard-Yale Track Team Takes Oxford-Cambridge Classic | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

...work of the sprints--although Cambridge's Dewo Roberts has a 9.8 100 to his credit. The 440 may turn into a battle between two Americans, Harvard captain Albie Gordon and Yale sophomore Jim Stack. The Crimson's Joel Landau is favored in the high hurdles over Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, and either Landau or Yale's Jay Luck should take the lows. The 4 x 110 relay should go to the Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole vault, since Cambridge's Stuart Downhill, the best Englishman, has done only...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Harvard-Yale Team Works Out In Preparation for Track Meet With Oxford-Cambridge Tonight | 6/10/1959 | See Source »

...years Rossum's Universal Robots will produce so much corn, so much cloth, so much everything, that things will be practically without price. There will be no poverty. All work will be done by living machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: R.U.R., 1952 | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

Last Friday and Saturday, M.I.T.'s "Dramashop" produced Karel Capek's "R.U.R."--Rossum's Universal Robots--at Boston's Peabody Playhouse. Capek's play, which describes a future society dominated by robets, has been repeated reasonably often during the last 20 years; it was a logical choice for a robot-minded group of students...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 5/10/1950 | See Source »

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