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Word: upness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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These Saturday afternoons fans are packing into the ancient concrete bowl of Archbold Stadium (cap. 39,701), the students fret about national rankings, and a battered Civil War cannon keeps up a running drumfire as it booms out each score. Syracuse is now scheduling such national powers as Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boys from Syracuse | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

2) Southern California (5-0)-revved up its famed ground attack for two last period touchdowns, beat Stanford, 30-28.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

When the actual structure began going up, its exterior proved too much for many critics as well, was dubbed "the snail," an "indigestible hot cross bun," a "wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

What first visitors saw, as they walked through the newly opened doors, was a huge, sudden space that swirled breathtakingly to the high dome. This, they recognized, was a building whose closed outer face deliberately belied the soaring drama of its interior. "It's like the Vati can," exclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

To fit the museum to his tastes, Ultra-modernist Sweeney had used flat white paint and light to cancel out a good many Wright concepts. Canvases were mounted unframed on rods projecting from the dazzling white wall. Bright, fluorescent lights were installed in the side skylights, canceling out Wright'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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