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Word: southwesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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String of Birdies. On the flat, sunbaked fairways of the Southwest, Big Mike was belting out astonishing scores. In the Texas Open, on San Antonio's municipal Brackenridge Park course, he shot two par holes, six birdies and an eagle for a record-breaking 27 on the back nine and turned in a total of 257 for 72 holes-27 under par and more than enough to win the tournament. The next week in the Houston Open, he won again with a 15-under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Mike | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Black Rock. Spencer Tracy is first-rate as a stranger among sullen evildoers in a cat-and-mouse game set in the Southwest (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Through the West and Southwest last week, the scrape of shovel, drone of plane and click of Geiger counter heralded the spread of uranium fever. As prospectors kept discovering uranium where no one had bothered to look before, Texas reported its first ore finds. Among the developments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Hot Stuff | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...papers started running tips for prospectors. Exasperated Texas ranchers, whose tempers have worn thin as prospectors tramped across their land, pressured Texas state legislators to pass a bill giving them more protection against the invasion. Said Chairman William Mather of the Minerals Technology Department of San Antonio's Southwest Research Institute: "Uranium is more widely distributed than anyone thought only a few years ago. The problem now isn't to locate it-it's to find an efficient way to recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Hot Stuff | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...Black Rock. Spencer Tracy is first-rate as a stranger among sullen evildoers in a cat-and-mouse game set in the Southwest (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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