Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lions still need a quarterback--any quarterback. Coach Buff Donelli has already matched last years' victory total, but another triumph may be a long time in the making. Harvey Brookins is the best backfield hold-over, and the maturing of last year's freshman team--the best in ten years--may provide help...
...Powerhouse Purdue of the lordly Big Ten huffed and puffed against unexpectedly rugged U.C.L.A., rolled up 203 yards on the ground v. U.C.L.A.'s paltry 79, but could not get up enough sustained steam to score, had to settle...
...ten-week-old steel strike began to cramp the nation's economy. The Federal Reserve Board reported that during August alone, industrial production declined on the basis of the 1947-49 average from the June alltime record...
Culling Competition. The expansion has some alley operators worried. With fat profits (often 13% return on investment after taxes and a ten-year amortization of invested capital) have come new alley operators to share in bowling's bonanza. In some metropolitan centers such as Chicago, Detroit and New York City, bowling alleys have been overbuilt. Los Angeles, with eight bowling centers in a 3½-mile radius, has been faced with bowling price wars. But the national average is still one lane for every 1,900 people, and bowling proprietors feel that one lane per 1,500 population...
...suggests that Nabokov is applying The Method to writing. He occupies his characters like houses; they have the lived-in look. As early as Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's writing was rich in fringe benefits. There is his animistic imagery: a stopped clock face wears "the waxed moustache of ten minutes to two," the first spring zephyrs are "cold-limbed ballet-girls waiting in the wings." There is the unflinching refusal to sacrifice art to the urgencies of politics: "Time for Sebastian was never 1914 or 1920 or 1936-it was always year 1." There is the verbal clowning...