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Word: sensationalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football of the 1880's was a rough game with the stress on brawn. A team was built around its line, and Yale and Harvard vied for the nation's giants. In 1893, Harvard came out with the greatest sensation since the game had been invented -- the flying wedge. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Football Begun at Harvard and Princeton | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

"These reporters who come down here and want to write about Closed aren't interested in the facts," says president Harold E. McCarthy, "they're interested in making a sensation. They just get a few half-truths and run away with them. When we're looking for half-baked criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closed College Preaches Proper Paternalism | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

For the benefit of latecomers to next month's press preview of Quo Vadis in Manhattan-and for those who may not be able to stick it out for the film's 2 hours and 55 minutes* -M-G-M thoughtfully prepared last week a sensation-by-sensa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time & the Tiber | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Before he found his future, at 14, Graham had made serious attempts at suicide. Once he drank some photograph developing fluid and a bottle of hay-fever lotion. Another time he tried eating a bunch of deadly nightshade. He can still remember "the curious sensation of swimming through wool" after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocker | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Television brought the games to the biggest baseball audience ever. In Denver, which not only saw its first Series but its first TV, the Series was a sensation. Eighty sets, installed in the lobbies, private suites and show windows of the Brown Palace and Cosmopolitan hotels, drew such crowds that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fall Fever | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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