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Word: setters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's running attack has been outstanding all season, with Boulris the consistent pace-setter. The Jet has finally matured as an outstanding runner, and if his play today measures up to the standard he has set so far this year, Dartmouth will have its hands full...

Author: By T. M. Rothencott, | Title: Varsity Given 6-Point Edge Over Dartmouth In Key Ivy League Contest for Both Squads | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

...dislikes Britain's tax strictures, Author T. H. White (The Once and Future King) lives on low-tax Alderney, a 3-sq.-mi. dot of an island in the English Channel. There he flaps about in baggy fisherman's corduroys, roams the beaches with a red setter named Jenny, and drives about in a mud-clotted, war-surplus Hillman. He gets along well with the islanders, but fumes at the excessive pace (30 m.p.h.) of Al-derney's three cabs. He seldom ventures from the island these days, but during the war he prowled western Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Concert of Talk | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...largely determined by a short, pert, alert woman who is one of the U.S.'s most successful businesswomen. Sally Victor, 54, is not.only the biggest fashion hatmaker (more than $500,000 a year) in the multimillion-dollar millinery business (1958 sales: $300 million), but she is a trend setter (along with such designers as Mr. John and Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear in pirated cheaper models; many a U.S. housewife will wear a Sally Victor design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SALLY VICTOR | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...millions the most exciting new film personality since Clark Gable with a mustache: Yul Brynner with hair. Yul did not really grow his own. The studio has provided him with a "transformation"-a curly, reddish-brown confection that suggests a sensitive blend of Bonaparte, Presley and well-kept Irish setter. Unfortunately, the picture will surely prove for many moviegoers, no less than it was for Actor Brynner, a hair-raising experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 19, 1959 | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Vest Point. In Port Washington, Wis., when John Jushka sent out his Irish setter on the first day of its training as a retriever, the dog came back with a wallet containing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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