Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME-LIFE Books in introducing a new series devoted to summarizing and displaying this diversity. The opening volume in the TIME-LIFE Library of America, out this week, is The Pacific States, covering California, Oregon and Washington. The author is Neil Morgan, a Californian who in 1963 published Westward Tilt, a much-acclaimed study of the region. TIME-LIFE'S The Pacific States contains maps, travel and nature information, museum listings. Above all, it contains an account of "the restless edge of American society"-an edge that we at TIME have often explored. In his preface, Poet-Critic Kenneth...
...Harvard. B.U. tilt went a period and a half further down the road to upset city. The Crimson found itself possessor of a 5-4 lead and seemingly in control of the game with seven minutes to play...
Though advertising agencies might tilt about car-rental rankings, there is no argument over the No. 1 in their own profession. Meeting in Chicago last week, directors of Manhattan-based J. Walter Thompson reported that the 102-year-old company had easily maintained its place at the top. During the past year, the agency added ten domestic accounts, signed up 65 overseas clients, and received enough additional business from blue-chip accounts, which include Ford, Eastman Kodak, Pan American and Kraft Foods, to bring total billings up to $580 million...
...Some tilt windmills; the Harvard wrestling team tries to beat Cornell for the Ivy League championship. This year Coach Bob Pickett will juggle his line-up before each meet to fulfill his glorious quest...
Around the middle of every November, the earth is involved in a headlong collision; it plows full tilt into a stream of meteoroids that heat into shooting stars as they plunge through the upper atmosphere. Most years, hardly anyone notices. Only astronomers and dedicated amateurs take note of the few brief, blazing arcs that make up the "Leonid showers," named for the constellation Leo, which appears behind them in the sky. This week the celestial fireworks promise to be far more gaudy than usual. Instead of half a dozen or so meteors per hour, the count in the early morning...