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Word: spectaculars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nate Corning will not play in the Crimson goal tonight as Cooney Weiland's varsity sextet tries to repeat last week's spectacular upset over Yale. The game starts at 8:30 p.m. in the New Haven Arena. Harvard, which shut out the Elis, 4 to 0, will also be without the services of defenseman Jim Wykoff for its final game of the season...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Swimmers Meet Powerful Elis Here; Six Visits New Haven | 3/10/1951 | See Source »

...long winning streaks will go on the line at 6:45 p.m. tonight in the Blockhouse when the spectacular Crimson freshman basketball engages the equally amazing Yale yearlings. The Yalies have won 12 straight, the Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings to Play Strong Yale Five | 3/10/1951 | See Source »

Fred Horwen revived the Yardling's hopes when he made a spectacular shot from the blue line at 2:24 of the final stanza, but Maquire tallied twice before time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BC Freshmen Top Yardling Six, 6-5 | 3/6/1951 | See Source »

During the Eisenhower visit in January the police made a spectacular haul in Milan's O.M. (Officine Mecchaniche) automotive plant. Inside an old, sealed air-raid shelter were a 45-mm. mortar, five antiaircraft guns, 22 machine guns, twelve barrels of tear gas, hundreds of grenades, many small arms, 82 cases of ammunition. A smart police officer narrowly averted a tragedy by cautioning his men not to switch on a light in the shelter; it turned out to be a booby trap set up to detonate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Arsenal of Terror | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...bold bridegroom of Crete came up for trial last week. Although mustachioed Constantine Kephaloyannis had capped his spectacular kidnaping of Tassoula Petracogeorgi last August (TIME, Sept. 4) by marrying her in a lonely monastery on fabled Mount Ida, Tassoula's father was not appeased. He had the groom thrown in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Mount Ida to Jail | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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