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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only other bright spot for the freshman sextet was the goaltending of captain Bob Bland, who made 40 saves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Favored Yardlings Six Will Face Dartmouth | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

Yale has not been beaten in dual swimming meets since 1945, when a war-depleted team lost to Army. Last week Kiphuth was in his accustomed spot at poolside as his charges walloped Columbia 57-29-Yale's 176th consecutive dual-meet victory, and notable only for the fact that it surpassed Kiphuth's own earlier record of 175 consecutive victories set between 1924 and 1937. But a sadder milestone faces Kiphuth. He has reached Yale's mandatory retirement age of 68, will be forced to retire at the end of this season. Phil Moriarty. a trusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master of the Pool | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Unemployment remained the economy's weak spot. In January the number of jobless rose 616,000 to 4,724,000, the highest for the month since before World War II. But the increase was only about half the seasonal increase in jobless of January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Prices: Steady | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...they may do worse. Neutrons often change a metal's structure in such a way that its electrical resistance increases. If this should happen suddenly to a hydrogen-cooled coil while a monstrous current is flowing through it, much of the apparatus is apt to vaporize on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cold-Coil Fusion | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...globe-trotting reporter for the Chicago Daily News, and Marshall Haseltine, urbane expatriate who lived in Europe. Weller got a leave of absence to work with Cushing. He drove into Squaw Valley over the rutted dirt road from State Highway 89, took one horrified look and decided on the spot that the pitch had to be a return to Olympic ideals of togetherness and simplicity, in contrast to Europe's ornate resorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bonanza in the Wilderness | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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