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Word: toms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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CORNELL: The Big Red nearly won the Ivy title last season, but Coach Lefty James simply will not be able to replace Tom Skypeck. Only Phil Taylor remains from last year's backfield, and the line lacks both weight and depth...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Varsity to Tie for Second As Penn Takes Ivy Title | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

YALE: The Elis are due to move up, if only because they have nowhere else to go. Coach Jordan Oliver will have most of last year's team back, which may or may not be a blessing. The quarterback problem seems to be working itself out, with Bill Leckonby, Tom Singleton and Art LaVallie the top candidates...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Varsity to Tie for Second As Penn Takes Ivy Title | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...candlelight, the brothers gathered in the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. With swelling pride, they chanted occult jargon and Tom Sawyerish vows. With stern mien, one night last week they launched an ancient rite: the not-so-gentle art of hazing new members before accepting them into the fraternity with its friendships and parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Brothers | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Look Back in Anger (Woodfall, Warner), when it opened on the London stage three years ago, became a sort of Uncle Tom's Diggings, fanning a flame and suggesting a name for the new literary group that was soon known as the Angry Young Men. Its hero, Jimmy Porter, bellowed rage at religion, the Sunday Times, and his mother-in-law, a woman, he rasped, who was as "rough as a night in a Bombay brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...world's largest bowling alley-112 lanes covering a space as long as two football fields-was completed last week in Edison, N.J., by two brothers, Thomas Jr. and James Swales. Said Tom Swales: "You practically need binoculars to see from one side to the other." What the bowlers also saw was the latest sample of how the bowling boom has changed the once smoky, dusty, somewhat disreputable hangout for men into a family and community recreation center. Edison Lanes not only offers special promotions for women bowlers and cut rates for children, it also opens its meeting rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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