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Word: useful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lustre came from the romantic lead, Vivian Thomas as Yum-Yum, and Benjamin Cox's Nanki-Poo. Miss Thomas bounces onto the stage with her disarming freshness and charm and an outstandingly lovely voice. Cox has just the right voice for this part, and knows how to use it, although last night he sounded a little constrained. The two of them made a very attractive pair, if slightly too all-American for their British pronunciation...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Mikado | 12/4/1959 | See Source »

...faith in the venture of a pioneering group. The syndicate admits that it plans frequent mention of the Harvard name, raising the question of whether Harvard, which sponsors only amateur athletics, should be connected so directly with commercial sports. Furthermore, the University could not easily deny the use of its property later to other professional groups, once it allowed the Boston team to play in the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and the Professionals | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

Summer School students, who have previously lived in the old dorms, will use the Houses during the next session. Last year, the Summer School took over Winthrop House, and it will probably utilize one or two more Houses this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reconstruction Projected For Three Dorms | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...meet these powers, Marion will use a team which is notably strong in the foil division, but undermanned in the epee class. His personnel problems have even forced him to switch Allan Gardner, basically a foil man, to epee competition in order to help the team's only regular epee combatant, Jim Roberts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marion Says Training Program Should Improve Fencing Squad | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

...Supreme Court Justice in a steam bath is divested not only of shirt, shorts, socks, shoes, pants, and robe of office. but of his authority. So argues Author Lawrence Langner, director of the Theatre Guild, authority on patent law and, in this volume, theorist on the use and abuse of clothes. Writes Langner, with the fervor of a textile magnate enjoying a martini after a board meeting: If it were not for the invention of clothes, "there would be precious little religion, government, society, law and order, [or] morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clothes Make Mankind | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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