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Word: trios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton students, who take tests on a proctor-less honor system, felt obliged to report the trio. Brought before Nassau officialdom, the miscreants turned out to be editors of the Yale Daily News on an espionage mission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Men Are Aghast; That Was No Time to Joke | 10/11/1950 | See Source »

...Manhattan to plug a new movie (Trio) adapted from three of his short stories, Somerset Maugham told reporters that his writing career was almost, but not quite, over: "If I think of an occasional little piece I will write it. When you have written for a great many years, it's a habit you get into and rather hard to break, and if I don't sit at my writing table each morning, I don't know exactly what to do with myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...batteries of six 1500-watt bulbs--the same type used for major league baseball games--comprise the lighting unit. Three batteries are attached to the Stadium wall, the other three top a trio of removable 45-foot towers at the edge of the practice enclosure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Spot Lights At Football Field Held Finest Ever | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

Only six reservists have been activated from Princeton's student body, and no one has as yet been drafted. Three faculty members, however, have been called up by the Navy. Included in this trio is Merle Lawrence, associate professor of Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale and Princeton Lay Plans for Battle Crisis | 9/27/1950 | See Source »

...late Grace Moore heard her, promised to launch her on a career in the U.S. But shortly after Yma got to Manhattan in 1947, the famed soprano was killed in a plane crash. With husband Moises Vivanco playing the guitar and cousin Cholita Rivero dancing ("The Inca Taky Trio"), Yma sang at a Pan American Union concert in Washington in 1948. Demanded the Times-Herald critic, after praising her to the skies: "What's the matter with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Daughter of the Sun God | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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