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Word: vers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Military relations in the United States from 1775-1865 will be taught by Marcus Cunliffe, senior lecturer in American History and Institutions at the University of Manchester. Clarence L. Ver Steeg, associate professor at Northwestern University, will conduct a graduate seminar in the Spring on American history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chair Sought For Study Of Latin Nations | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

...quick-opening plays and tricky hand-off s; the split-T, which spreads the defense for exasperating option plays-Michigan State uses all three and adds even more. At any moment Duffy's quarterbacks may disconcert the defense with a bastard version of the T. In this maneu ver, the ball is snapped directly to the fullback through the T quarterback's legs, leaving the quarterback free to block ahead of the runner or tear downfield for a pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Man | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...that the lace-curtain shanty Irish is not an insulting epithet but a whimsey originating among the Irish, repeated among themselves and to non-Irish friends, quoted by the latter-always with quote marks implied by the intonation. Several years ago an Irish friend told me a more recent ver sion, which classified Irish-Americans into "the clean lace-curtain Irish, and the dirty Venetian-blind Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

after death, The undisco'ver'd country from whose

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death Ain't Got No Sting | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

This week the Eisenhowers came down from the mountains for a visit in Den ver at Great-Grandmother Doud's. "He's a good boy," said Ike, swelling with grandfatherly pride. "He does exactly what you tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Five Days with Grandfather | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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