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Word: spectaculars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit side of the balance were good teamwork on a day that made spectacular playing difficult, and much improved tackling. On the debit was an injury to South African graduate student Derek Henderson that will put him out for the rest of the season with a displaced cartilege and ripped ligaments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ruggers Beat M.I.T., 6-0, In Season's Opener; J.V.'s Lose | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...lota." At week's start, the President called a three-hour White House meeting of scientific and military advisers. They brought him up to date on Sputnik, with particular attention to the spectacular and ominous rocket-thrust required to push so heavy a satellite into outer space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Race to Come | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...protocol-minded, precedence-conscious nation's capital, there appeared the book of the year, the annual Social List of Washington, which ineluctably determines how high or low high-living Washington partygoers will eat at their friends' dinner tables. The most spectacular jump toward the head of the table was made by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...second well. Last week, in Brooks County, Texas, still another well came in for the same three outfits, this one capable of producing 30 million to 40 million cu. ft. of gas daily on 1,600 acres of previously undeveloped land. But the Ohio strike was the most spectacular, smack dab in old Mike's backyard, not many miles from the Pittsburgh headquarters of an oil empire stretching from Canada to Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Triple Play | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 30--Little Rock was relaxed today as an almost holiday atmosphere greeted the opening of the annual Arkansas Livestock Exposition, billed as a spectacular show combining rodeo action and exhibits of prize farm animals...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Arkansas Livestock Fair Opens in Quiet Capital | 10/1/1957 | See Source »

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