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Word: unicorns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only solace, she offers him her favorite, saying, "Here's an example of one, if you care to see it." In the current H.D.C. production, she takes at this moment a quick, frightened, intensely poignant glance at him, to see if he will condescend to look at the glass unicorn she treasures so. Both to the interpreting mind and the receiving heart, the glance means more than the line...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Glass Menagerie | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Folly's Power. Pharaoh's court inevitably degenerates; one of his weak, precocious daughters dies, and his beautiful sister-bride Nefertiti becomes half-blind with trachoma. By the gentle glowing phosphorescence of decay, Stacton's characters search for some meaning to life. Such a unicorn hunt cannot succeed, of course, but it has its impressive moments -Stacton's people talk very well. They may, in fact, talk a bit too well; after a time the author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Pharaoh | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...scoring medalist was B.C.'s Dick Ganong, with a one over par 71 at the Unicorn Country Club in Stoneham. Playing against Ganong in the number two position, Crimson golfer Fisk Warren shot a 76. Captain Frank Dodge, playing in the first position, had a seven over par 69 after 16 holes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Golfers Win Double Match | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...University cut the subsidy for the golf team this year, and funds to finance practice rounds were short. For the majority of the team members, the qualifying rounds, started Saturday on the Unicorn course, marked the first time they had been on the fairway this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Golfers Win Double Match | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

Starting with its next issue, the Freshman Yardling will include a four-page literary supplement entitled the "Unicorn," which will include both prose and poetry. Co-editor John L. Ernst '62 described the purpose of the "Unicorn" as an "attempt to provide an outlet for the really good freshman writers who otherwise could not publish their work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Will Start to Print Literary Section--'Unicorn' | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

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