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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense, Jim Herscot, last year's varsity captain, and Fred Sharf, a regular in 1956, will start for the Club. Its captain is Moe Baldwin, another former Crimson ace, who will open the game at attack along with Skip Bohn. Bohn led the Ivy League in scoring when he played for Dartmouth several years...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Varity Lacrosse Team to Meet Ex-College Stars of Boston Club | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

...varsity's casualty list has dwindled to one serious injury, Ed Martin's damaged Achilles tendon. Skip Pescosolido hurt his arm after a succession of 200 ft. javelin throws, but his condition is not believed to be serious...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

Field events may be the team's strong point. Doten and Jim Doty in the hammer, Abbot and Doty in the shot, Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, and Blodgett in the pole vault lead a strong group that should produce a few sweeps before the season is over...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

...boys (30% of them on scholarships) to about 850. Not all the academy's plans involve construction and large chunks of cash; in recent years a broad system of honors courses has been instituted, and boys with special ability are encouraged to take exams that will let them skip routine college courses. Last week, deep in plans for improving his academy, Headmaster Kemper explained his purpose-to meet "an era of unparalleled rapidity of change with new ideas, new attitudes, and new techniques and tools, while holding fast to the enduring values of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Plan for Andover | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...sports arena, uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years ago St. Louis' "silk stocking'' district, the twister changed its swath-cutting pattern and skip-bombed its havoc: it ripped up some of the same buildings that were wrecked in the St. Louis tornado of 1927 (which killed 78), dropped at random like a cleaver in some blocks, spewed rubble into great heaps. And then, perhaps five minutes after it had begun, the tornado snuffed itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Five Minutes of Havoc | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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