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Word: spectaculars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Hyde was usually over-shadowed by the spectacular play of this year's captain, Dexter Lewis, he nevertheless contributed much to the Crimson's comeback late in the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ten Elects Hyde New Captain | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...Classicism to a spearhead of Romanticism. Shakespeare was all the rage, closely followed by Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Schiller. France's poets, painters, sculptors and novelists all joined hands in this insurrection, but one and all acknowledged as their leader one of literary history's most spectacular figures-Victor-Marie Hugo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ode to Victor | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...screen. In a sweater, as everybody can see, she is a standout; "I defy gravity," says Marilyn. In skintight toreador pants, she manages to make the world's most famous come-on out of a simple walkaway, and Marilyn's face, by popular standards, is as spectacular as her figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Driggs, at four, played steady and consistent rather than spectacular golf to gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red Golf Team Defeats Crimson, 6-1 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...compete with Paris-Presse), three pages of financial news (to offset Le Monde). Right from the start, the new paper's circulation topped that of Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), the morning bible of France's upper middle class. Whatever its own future, Le Temps' spectacular start put the whole Paris press on its mettle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: France's New Daily | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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