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Word: rowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skiing, unlike crew, which requires many long hours of strenuous practice, is a fairly easy sport to learn. The basic thing to remember is that one should always ski down a hill, because when you row up a hill, you have to go against the current. The crew member already knows this, of course, because his rowing practice all fall has taught him to keep his knees bent, his back arched in a straight line, and his head down as he strokes...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation in some Red Chinese factories) is the "Saturday-night system," under which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Year of the Leap | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Williams, charged with larceny after trust, came up for trial. Atlanta papers carefully obeyed the Pye mandate, snapped no new pictures of Defendant Williams, although the Constitution got a picture of him out of its files and ran it on Page One for four days in a row while the hearing was in progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Long Reach of the Law | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...because it has name actors, and producers are apt to hire stars for insurance, whether they fit the role or not. For partygoers, the play is far from the thing. They are apt to turn up high from preparty banquets; men do business in the aisles, wives gossip from row to row. Mary Martin once complained: "Their attitude is: 'I've paid my 35 bucks, now show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Theater Parties | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...communications, American Telephone & Telegraph President Frederick R. Kappel said the decline in new phone installations was reversed in September and "business is on the way up." Betting heavily on the future, A.T. & T. will spend $2 billion on construction next year for the fourth year in a row...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Happy Holidays | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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