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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown, out for the season with a knee injury, it will have number two man Dave Norris in top shape and a constantly improving Jim Schlaeppi backing up Reider. Rounding out the Crimson lineup are Ralph Perry, Bill Thompson, Bob Holmes, Bill Morris, John Read, Dick Wharton, and physically sub-par Captain Dave McLean...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Cross Country Team Will Meet Weak Dartmouth Varsity Today | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...common disorder of the human heart, reported Dr. James H. Wible and colleagues of Detroit's Wayne University College of Medicine. Called "Elgiloy," the metal is formed into a valvelike flap and covered with nylon. The surgeon fits it into the heart in place of a sub-par mitral or aortic valve. Within 48 hours normal tissue begins to grow around it, in about two weeks completely encloses it. The metal is expected to retain its springiness beyond the patient's life expectancy. ¶Because certain cancers take up phosphorus more readily than healthy tissues do, a University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Cuts | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins a character to the reader's consciousness. Jimmy Tal-lant's lonely face "made you think of telephone poles leaning infinitely on along a highway that went forever toward the mountains." A sub-moronic deputy is "the third best shot at the pool hall"; ig-year-old Cissy was "poised that summer at a moment of femininity so intense that her virginity seemed scandalously out of order in the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trouble at Lacey | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...vast number of Victorian sub-intrigues and love affairs make a coherent summary of the plot impossible. The spiral staircase is in the old Warren House, run by Professor Warren (George Brent) and owned by old Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) who is dying upstairs, attended by Helen the dumb maid (Dorothy McGuire). She cannot talk. When young Dr. Parry arrives to attend to old Mrs. Warren, he falls in love with Helen. Then the professor's step-brother, Stephen Warren, turns up, and young ladies commence dying, among them Stephen's own girl friend, Blanche (Rhonda Fleming...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Spiral Staircase | 10/19/1956 | See Source »

...other two linemen show a similar lack of experience. The left tackle is an untried sophomore, Raymond Fischer, who did not start against Bowdoin. Weighing 200 lbs., he is fast and a good blocker. The right guard is 165-lb. Joe Asiaf, who saw some action as a sub last year...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/5/1956 | See Source »

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