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Word: spectaculars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he usually stays on the ground, the Air Force's mild-mannered Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, 45, got aviation's annual Cheney Award for his contributions to space medicine. Dr. Stapp's most spectacular bit of research: setting a world land-speed record of 632 m.p.h. on a rocket-propelled sled (TIME, Jan. 10) while testing firsthand the reactions of airmen to bullet-swift speeds and brain-jarring stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...wild and wise romp is now fast making up the $73,000 deficit incurred by Salute. Best news of all: Salute should be completely out of the red after the U.S. at large gets its chance to see The Skin of Our Teeth as an NBC-TV Spectacular, Sept. 11,7 130 p.m. E.D.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Skin, New Vim | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). One Touch of Venus; with Janet Blair, Russell Nype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...television, Sinatra is about to star in a Spectacular-type musical version of Our Town, and last week NBC was chasing him hard with a five-year contract to do seven shows a year. The proposed nut: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Grand chistera, played by three-man teams with extra-long chisteras. This is the fastest and most spectacular variety, the favorite of the pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bounding Basques | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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