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Word: twentieths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later in the afternoon, John Houser finished twentieth in the slalom. Downhill and jumping contests will be held today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Country Skiers Place 5th at Hanover | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

...Black Mamba" was originally written as an exercise in a composition course, quite simply and openly as a stylistic experiment. The actual amount of Lawrence material in the story constituted perhaps one twentieth of the whole. I had done similar exercises with stories by Joyce and Katherine Anne Porter and Hemingway. The instructor was fully aware that I was doing experimental stories: there was no subterfuge involved. Certainly there was no intention of publishing it as it was first written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conboy Replies | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

From this premise developed, in the last century, the idea that games between rival colleges should be encouraged. Slowly at first and then with frightening acceleration, intercollegiate athletics developed in the United States in the twentieth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Today: Excerpts From the President's Report | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...regard to athletics, the report emphasizes the importance of the intramural program. "Slowly at first and then with frightening acceleration, intercollegiate athletics developed in the United States in the twentieth century," Conant maintained. "The status in 1952 needs no comment in view of all that has been written and said on the subject of foot ball and basketball in the last eight months...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Conant Calls For Theatre Fellowships, Drama Center | 1/24/1952 | See Source »

After the opening scene, a firing squad execution, an unseen narrator announces that Decision Before Dawn will explain why a spy risks his life to betray his own country. The picture never quite does this, but in trying, Twentieth Century Fox has produced a semi-documentary melodrama that can be best described in superlatives...

Author: By William A. M. burden, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/11/1952 | See Source »

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