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Word: sherwood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Project Sherwood, the secret U.S. program to achieve controlled thermonuclear (atomic fusion) power, came ever so slightly into the open last week. After attending a secret conference of 350 Sherwood men at Gatlinburg, Tenn., Dr. Edward Teller, leading authority on thermonuclear processes, delivered a complicated paper before an unclassified meeting of the American Nuclear Society at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Bottle | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...shortest story of the issue, Catherine Dawson's Stefan is the sketch of a sewing plant worker. In its repetition and harsh conclusion, Stefan resembles the stories of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes enough so as to seem affected. Written with economy and a great care for words, however, Stefan is a good story because it seems to matter...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Advocate | 6/1/1956 | See Source »

...Gaby (which is distantly related to Waterloo Bridge, a 1930 melodrama by the late Robert Sherwood). Actress Caron has to do all these things and something even sillier. She plays a French ballet dancer who is too prim to succumb to the man she loves, though they are engaged to be married and he is about to go into battle. Later on, she refuses to marry him because, during a period when she thought him dead, she had not refused other men. After watching Actor Kerr (who played the schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality in Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...even in this time of relative dramatic inactivity, there were those who cried for more interest in the art of drama at Harvard--a school that had known the famous Baker 47 Workshop, which had turned out the great Eugene O'Neil, the sensitive Robert Sherwood, and a number of other men who took prominent roles in the growth of the American Theatre in the 1920's and 30's. Behind their pleas for a revival of the "dramatic spirit" that was lacking at Harvard 1953, these advocates called for a Harvard Theatre, without which, they were sure, a revival...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr. and Bernard M. Gwertzman, S | Title: Revived Dramatics Activity Parallels Theatre Interest | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

...their negative arguments against Robert H. Secrist '57, William S. Bahary '57, and Jerome Halberstadt of Lowell. Winthrop's negative team of James E. Price '58 and Richard C. Stillman '58 defeated Kirkland's Maurice G. Ford '58 and Robert Lifson '57. Adams, represented by William C. Brady '57, Sherwood Waldron '58, and Robert E. Ausnit '57 lost to David F. Hayes '58, Anthony P. Giordano '58, and Henry L. Tafe '58, who upheld the affirmative for Dudley. Leverett's affirmative, composed of James H. Reiss '58, Alan Merson '56 and Lindsay Fischer '56, defeated the Eliot team of Jack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Dunster Top House Debate | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

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