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Word: set (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council agreed unanimously to set up a permanent committee to continue checking student opinion on meals and "to continue good Council relations with the dining halls department...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Decides Against Studying Typing of Exams | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...standard farmer-cowman battleground. Black Rock is unusually homogeneous, "consumed with apathy," until the appearance of the outsider threatens the power elite and probes the town's collective guilty conscience. The suspension of disbelief called for is somewhat greater than usual, owing to the improbable economic and social set-up of the town, population circa twelve, all of whom sport neuroses of one sort or other. One day's exposure to the hero is all the therapy they need to set them straight, however, while he seems also to have undergone Rebirth by the time he rides out of town...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Bad Day at Black Rock | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

Penn regained a 48-47 lead at the quarter mark on Bob Mlkvy's set shot, but lost it immediately when Bowditch hit for one of his usually accurate one-handers. The varsity never lost the lead thereafter, consistently dominating play from this point...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: McClellan Leads Second-Half Rally As Quintet Upsets Quakers, 69-60 | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

Medical School officials originally set a goal of $7.5 million for the building project. Miss Countway's gift will cover the cost of construction, but an endowment of $4 million on the new library will be sought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School's Library Given $3.5 Million | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

Redhead. Gwen Verdon, the Tenth Muse of Broadway, stops, starts, and saves this musical mystery show set in a turn-of-the-century London waxworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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