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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half was a see-saw battle most of the way, with the Crimson achieving a 32-33 advantage in the last minute. The varsity gradually increased its margin to 60 to 51, but then began to miss easy the opportunity to catch up and win the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Five Downs Varsity Squad, 67-63 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Harrington's jump-shot capped a last second team rally which saw the Crimson, trailing 71-63, score eight straight points. The victory itself was a team one with six varsity players breaking into the double figure scoring column...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Varsity Five Rallies, Defeats Lions, 80-75, In Overtime Session | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

...second half turned into a see-saw battle with the Crimson cutting into Columbia's lead only to have the Lions pull away again. With nine minutes gone in the second half, after Dave Grayer, who played the game in place of Bob Bowditch, had fouled out, Columbia increased its lead from four to eight points and maintained the margin until the closing minutes...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Varsity Five Rallies, Defeats Lions, 80-75, In Overtime Session | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

...anyone can see, the introduction of such titillating technology had a deleterious effect on criticism of American literature. Because one of the major aims of the professorial business is the preservation of the scholarly race, few young men became critics of American letters. Clearly, young men saw little advantage in tilling with their hands, when across the fence in the field of Englishliterature, large and aggressive machines were making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An American Comedy | 2/4/1959 | See Source »

...wonder is that a man as patently mad as Rolfe should have been sane enough to write Crabbe's story. He saw himself, not as others saw him, but, worse, as he saw others. Yet a strong echo of religious faith and a capacity for lacerating laughter relieve the baleful monomania of his vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad but Memorable | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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