Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshmen are seeking their seventh consecutive victory over Yale, not having lost to the Blue since...
...Dimension. Outer spacemanship seems to call for large fictional gestures, and before he is through, Author Clarke manages to blow up the sun. the earth, and one or two outlying solar systems. His stories are larded with the lingo and gadgetry of tomorrow, e.g., "gravity inverters," "radiospectrographs," "the thirty-seventh dimension." Spaceman Clarke believes that "space travel is man's next step in evolution with consequences that may be even greater than those of man's evolution as a land animal." His latest book carries glimmerings of the awesome dimensions of that step, but at times, the dialogue...
...more than 400 races in a single year, and he has a statistical edge on Hartack in years on the track, in races won, in friends made. (As if to prove it, Willie the Shoe last week brightened the ninth year of his career by becoming the seventh jockey ever to ride 3,000 winners.) He is a patient, gentle, honest rider who somehow transmits his gentility to his mounts. They seem to run for Shoemaker out of sheer desire not to let him down. Shoemaker's finesse is a private communication with his horse...
...would have settled for less," said the St. Louis Cardinals' First Baseman Stan Musial, 37, as he signed a $100,000 contract for his 17th season in the majors. National League batting champ for the seventh time, Stan the Man has long since earned his new honor of being the highest-paid player in National League history...
Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...