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Word: sticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some cobs showed tooth marks; they had apparently been eaten as modern people eat sweet corn. MacNeish estimates that agriculture provided about 4% of the food at this period (4,000 years ago). The rest were wild plants and animals, which were hunted with the atlatl or spear-throwing stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Gettin' on the stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Follow the Fold | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

...skeptics who doubt that any course connected with the military could be worthwhile, Dupuy's report outlines a thoughtful program. Though it is easiest to stick to discussing the manual of arms in class, the new plan would offer instead courses in Military History and the Psychology of Leadership. Since the history and psychology departments and even the law school have pledged support, there's strong promise that the ROTC could at last lift itself academically. Since the course will be open to the entire College at full credit, a test of the program's success will be the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Here to Equality | 4/22/1954 | See Source »

Lewis got his goal when, late in the second quarter, Curtis passed to Phil Waring in front of the cage. The ball grazed the top of Waring's stick and headed for midfield, but Lewis picked it out of the air and flipped it in to make the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Crushed Tufts, 13-2; Freshmen Elect Newhall Captain | 4/22/1954 | See Source »

...running low, old friends were so bored with each other that they were reduced to a half-forgotten childhood game. Someone stretched a cord across one of the manor corridors, and, so the story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came to life. The makeshift net added a fascinating new dimension to the old game. Battledore and shuttlecock, that gloomy day in 1873, became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tireless Champ | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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