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Word: smashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving rain. Hopelessly cheering till the last play, the man of '27 helped form a soggy 'H' with red and white handker-chiefs, tried lighting a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flash, and snuggled deeper into his raccoon coat. Afterwards he took his date to see the smash hit of the day, John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...

Author: By David C.D. Rogers, | Title: Riots, Mental Telepathy, Exams and Probation Among Vivid Memories of 1927's Initial Years | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

South Pacific. Super-smash musical with a wartime background that will probably run longer-than the war did (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

This same lack of perspective occasionally results in passages that are magnificent in their display of conceit and paranoia. For example, describing his flight from the Communist Party in 1938, he writes, "I therefore decided to try first of all to smash the secret apparatus by myself." His fear of the violence the Party would commit against his person for his desertion not only led him to write at night with a pistol by his hand but ultimately allowed him to write in Witness: "We traveled lightly and I drove as fast as possible. I knew that the Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Witness | 6/5/1952 | See Source »

...looked as though the varsity might score in the eighth. But left fielder Marty Badoian snared Ray Maesaka's line smash and doubled Akillian at second. HARVARD (3) ab r h po a e Krinsky, ss 4 1 0 6 0 1 Robinson, rf 3 2 2 1 4 0 Johnson, lb 3 0 0 1 6 0 Walsh (C), c 4 0 0 0 6 2 Akillian, if 4 0 3 0 3 0 Clasby, ef 3 0 0 0 0 0 Maesaka, 3b 4 0 0 2 1 1 Young, 2b 2 0 0 2 6 1 *Smith...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Nine Commits Five Errors, Loses to Bruin Varsity, 4-3 | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

Crimson ruggers tried to pull off the upset of the season against a heavily-favored Yale squad at New Haven last Saturday, but their weaker back-line just couldn't score. Meanwhile, the Elis were able to smash the Crimson defense twice to win a 6 to 0 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Lose 6-0 To Powerful Elis; JV's Win at M.I.T. | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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