Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both men and women, reports London's erudite medical journal, the Lancet. One sure cause is a certain type of nylon hairbrush, and it took keen detective work by London Dermatologist Agnes Savill to find this out. A man of 27 went to her with a triangular bald spot, getting persistently bigger, on the side of his head. Dr. Savill found many short hairs of unequal length, some with frayed ends. Her conventional treatments-oil and massage-did no good, but when the patient switched to an old-fashioned boar-bristle brush, his hair grew out normally. Dr. Savill...
...California (4-2)-dumped Oregon 23-6 to stay unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference play, edge closer to a spot in the Rose Bowl New Year...
...Harvard forward unit held, and Penn had to kick. Then, with the ball on the Crimson 20, Boulris tried his favorite right end spot, wriggled free from several defenders, and raced 55 yards to the Penn 25. Four plays later Johanson found captain Tom Hooper alone in the end zone, Hooper making a very nice catch of a rather inaccurate 20 yard toss...
Louisiana State University was voted the number one position, with Iowa in the second spot, and Army third. And yet just a quick glance at the records will reveal that the Crimson is some 248 points better than Army, 225 better than Iowa, and 258 better than the pretenders from...
...Army (4-0)-downgraded from the No. 1 spot because, against sub-par Virginia, it stumbled through a fumble-filled first half before straightening out and rolling...