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Word: totems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star halfback for Dartmouth last year, has played both ways for two years and is the Green captain. John Godfrey, one of the two non-lettermen of the starting team is one of the bright spots on the team. A junior who rated low on the pre-season Indian totem pole he has played both ways in almost every game at the other guard post. Alex Athanas, heaviest of the guards at 208 pounds, will spell either Reich or Godfrey on offense...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Veteran Green Team Has 9 Starting Lettermen, Good Potential, One Win | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

...before their eyes. On one, a girl with a coy come-hither glance was profiled against a street of shadows; on another, a rocket ship looking like a futuristic swordfish zipped across interstellar space; a third, titled Vivid Experiences in Korea, was blocked out with vivid green and orange totem poles. It was all part of Moody Press's current campaign to give soul saving more sales appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jazzy Jackets | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Places such as The Totem Pole or Norumbega Park are well-known to many Harvard men, and hardly need further mention here. One spot that has been drawing an increasing part of the Crimson crowd is the King Phillip in Wrentham, which has gained its popularly by emphasing dancing opportunities. Prices are very reasonable here, too. It is just off Route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resorts Call Exam-Weary Harvard Men | 5/29/1952 | See Source »

...depicts life in Communist countries, shows people dying in prison, idle factories, cannon ready to fire, churches demolished, and people in slave camps. The sharpest touch: a mask of Rivera peering from behind a dollar-sign totem pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...bewitched, one bothered and one bewildered. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "[Partch's] score-fragmentary, subdued, elusive-vastly enhanced the . . . ominous tension of the tragedy." The Oakland Tribune man found it all "rather horrendous, and Sophocles came out low man on the totem pole." Wrote the San Francisco Call-Bulletin's critic: "There is both solid merit and miscalculation . . . judge it for yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goblin Music? | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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