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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour extension to 10 p.m. will represent little improvement. A couple forced out of the Houses at 10 will still have the problem of where to go until the girl must be in. And at that hour it is too late to go to a show or night spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parietal Problems | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

Also proposed is a series of sporadic, unannounced spot checks to see that only University people are using the library...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Reserve Book Plans Studied | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

...easy to spot what is wrong with Puntila, but the satisfactions of the evening, except for certain beautiful erotic-comic passages, are harder to pin-point. The play is based on a group of Finnish stories, and it manages to achieve a vaguely Finnish atmosphere: bracing and sparse. The series of unpretentious, easily-changeable settings (designed by Robert Skinner and Lorna Kreuger) have a good deal to do with this; the backdrops for successive scenes are frankly mounted on a large picture frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Puntila | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

Soaring 22 ft., 10 1/4 in., his best leap ever, on his first try, Pat Liles made the team in the broad jump. Eli Stan Mac-Donald's 22 ft., 7 1/4 in. jump edged the varsity's Bob Downs for the second spot...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Mullin Wins Special Mile | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

...Lipsky and Fisk Warren were the only victors against Princeton, as the varsity dropped its third of four Ivy League matches and its fourth of 14 contests overall. Warren, at the second spot, won his match 2 and 1, while Lipsky, playing at number six, was forced to the 380-yard par 4 eighteenth before winning one up. After driving into the water, Lipsky played three off the tee and got down in five, but his opponent folded and logged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Defeat Golf Team, 5-2 | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

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