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Word: stanzas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's downfall, for the play of starting guards George Harrington and Mike Donohue left little to be desired. Donohue, left little to be desired. Donohue, out of his recent slump, kept the varsity in front throughout the second half, notching 17 of his 21 points in that stanza. Harrington was second high man with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Five Downs Varsity Squad, 67-63 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Bowditch ended the drought at the 6:20 mark with a pretty three point play, but as in the opening stanza, the Buildogs began to increase their lead until it grew to 17 points with seven minutes left...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Elis Down Quintet in New Haven; Dartmouth Rally Tops Sextet, 4-2 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...minute mark of the second stanza, a Harrington set shot gave the Crimson its largest lead of the night, 35 to 30, but Brown fought back gamely, staying within three points of the visitors. Finally, with three minutes to go, Reed put the Bruins ahead, 50 to 49, for the first time in the half...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Crimson Quintet Loses To Bruins in Overtime | 1/6/1959 | See Source »

Churning out a verse for friends' Christmas cards. Veteran Poet Robert Frost, 84, turned his still-sure ironic hand to musings on the afterlife, stubbornly concluded his six-stanza effort (Away!) with a sardonically Frosty threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...tactic of passivity and silence gradually made him a hero with Russian intellectuals and made his rare public appearances S.R.O. affairs. At one such reading, in 1947, a sheet of his manuscript slipped to the floor, and before he could stoop to retrieve it the audience chanted the next stanza of his poem by heart. Eyes brimming with tears, Pasternak choked out "Spasibo Dorogiye" (Thank you. dear ones). At another reading, his listeners yelled "Sixty-six! Sixty-six!", meaning the sixty-sixth sonnet of Shakespeare. The telltale line: "Art made tongue-tied by authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passion of Yurii Zhivago | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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