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Word: townsends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next on the schedule is the Eastern Dinghy Championships, to be held this weekend at the Coast Guard Academy in New London. Deknatel and Tom Townsend will skipper the two varsity boats entered in the championships. The Crimson won the meet last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. Defeats Yachtsmen | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

...prove the theory. Researcher Calvin spelled out a delicate test: searching for free electrons in laminated chlorophyll exposed to sunlight. B. Commoner, J. J. Heise and J. Townsend of Washington University at St. Louis were the first to offer evidence that such electrons exist, but critics did not accept their experiment as conclusive. It was performed at room temperature, and under such conditions many chemical processes having nothing to do with photosynthesis can produce free electrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nature's Solar Batteries | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Princeton will probably start a line of Fred Reynolds, Rulon-Miller, and Bob Townsend. At defense will be Doug Levick and Frank Logan, two returning lettermen from last year's team. Robinson will start in goal. Crimson coach Cooney Weiland has of late been starting his second line of Dave Vietze, Dick Fischer, and Bob McVey. Dick McLaughlin and Dan Ullyot will be the defensive pair, while Bailey will be in the nets...

Author: By James W.b.benkard, | Title: Crimson Sextet Is Favored In Crucial Contest Tonight | 3/6/1957 | See Source »

...Queen had done the thing, no one would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until a few weeks ago the First Minister of the Queen [twice-married Sir Anthony Eden] was a man who had been through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hot Breath of Gossip | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Died. Willard Saxby Townsend, 61, onetime Chicago redcap who began organizing railroad porters in 1934, fought to gain employee status for redcaps (until 1938 most were paid entirely in tips), formed the International Brotherhood of Red Caps in 1937, brought his union (renamed the United Transport Service Employees) into the C.I.O. in 1942, later (1955) became one of two Negro vice presidents of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; of a kidney ailment; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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