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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although high winds made scores soar, the varsity golf team soundly trounced Brown, 5 1/2 to 1 1/2, at the Dedham Country Club yesterday. The freshmen also won, beating St. Marks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Beats Brown; Freshmen Swamp St. Marks | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...cease-fire hopes at Panmunjom sag or soar, what is happening to the morale of the G.I. in the line? Last week TIME Correspondent Bud Hutton cabled this answer from the Korean front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Counting on Nothing | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

When Louis J. Zerbee is not turning out garden and rumpus-room furniture in his Bellefontaine, Ohio factory, his thoughts rise far above such earthly pursuits. They soar to the stars. Seventeen years ago he went off on a vacation to his summer home at Indian Lake, where there was no telephone, and studied astronomy for relaxation. He didn't enjoy all the figuring, and when he lay on his back in the yard at night, and watched the stars sailing over Ohio, he felt sorry for seagoing navigators who must plot their ships' position by means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Figure-Killer | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Above the forest of silvered smokestacks that mark Anglo-Iranian's huge oil refinery at Abadan soar five towering gas pipes. For years flaming pillars of gas have jetted from these pipes, casting a ruddy glow on the night sky. But last week the night sky over Abadan was black. All but a handful of the 3,500 British oilmen who had tended the fires lovingly (and profitably) since they first flamed aloft had gone home. Darkness closed in along the neat cement walks separating the rows of bungalows where they had lived. The only sounds in the deserted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Darkness in Abadan | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

When Congress passed the Defense Production Act last month, Chief Stabilizer Eric Johnston solemnly prophesied that the cost of living would soar anywhere from 5% to 8% in the next year. Last week Johnston himself took a step toward making his gloomy warning come true: he approved a Wage Stabilization Board's decision that all wages may now be tied to the cost-of-living index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Wages Up | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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