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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although these early figures show a significant increase, Henry doubted that the overall number of applicants will surpass by a large amount last year's total of 4,200. "It is much too early to predict," he stated, "but the total may rise about 100."

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Applications Rise 15% Above 1958, May Top Record | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

His comments on the present state of Franco-American relations are at once perceptive and optimistic. "The idea of France's withdrawing from NATO is absurd. France is intelligent enough to realize that her security is to a large degree dependent on the American alliance. But De Gaulle thinks NATO...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: The Gift of Laughter | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

It requires imagination--for a team bouncing along with convincing victories over Penn, Princeton, and Yale--to take a Saturday off to lose to Brown. It requires imagination, too, to build a reputation for abysmal fourth quarters and then to demolish Yale with three fourth period touchdowns.

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Varsity Eleven Could Dominate Struggle for Ivy League Title | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

Richards makes this sketch, Bontche Schweig, and the first one, The Tale of Chelm, worthwhile. In making Bontche's request, his one line in the play, he must walk the tightrope between melodrama and pathetic humor, and he does it in perfect balance. The other actors, however, seem too rigid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The World of Sholom Aleichem | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

But any regrets are quashed by Sholom Aleichem's story The High School. This last sketch brings together brilliance of acting, direction, and story. Perl, in adopting a technique of surface discontinuity of story, actually heightens the underlying continuity of emotion. Morris Carnovsky plays to perfection the role of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The World of Sholom Aleichem | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

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