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Word: sellout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association's bid for the game--which is certain to be a sellout--carried with it a financial offer of $30,000. In addition, the national hookup would have made the game available to alumni across the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Game TV For Next Fall Turned Down | 4/22/1954 | See Source »

...with Telemeter, and for 30 days set owners were offered such attractions as the Notre Dame v. U.S.C. football game and first-run movies (Forever Female, Here Come the Girls') simultaneously with their first showing in the local movie houses. First-run pictures (at $1.35) were an 80% sellout; all Telemeter programs drew an average "attendance" of 60%. Telemeters are now being installed in the test area (at a cost of $21.75 to the set owner) at the rate of 20 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAY-AS-YOU-SEE TV.: Fun for the Viewer, Hope for the Industry | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...with some friends, he organized a producing company and leased a tiny (299 seats) theater. Thanks to Critic Atkinson and encouraging reviews from other critics (the Herald Tribune's, Walter Kerr spoke of the show's "sensuous excitement . . . warm, intense, illuminating conviction"), the play is a bustling sellout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Off Broadway | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...Sellout. In Chattanooga, Restaurant Owner Mitchell Wallace put this ad in the Times: "Business for sale. Need money for Orange Bowl game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Randy Turpin have much in common. Both are 25-year-old middleweights who learned their fighting in slum streets, both have been boxing since their early teens, and both have suffered stinging defeats at the fists of Sugar Ray Robinson, now retired. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, a sellout crowd of 18,869 turned out to watch Olson and Turpin fight for Robinson's old crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Sugar's Crown | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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