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Word: walls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson line will outweigh the Big Red's by 14 pounds, averaging 207 to 193 for the visitors. But the Crimson forward wall is not as fast as Cornell's, and scrimmages have shown decided weaknesses at center and left guard...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Cornell Favored by 12 Points In Yovicsin's Opening Contest | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

...waste an idle hour or so in conversation and looking around is Schuster's Art Gallery on Palmer Street, behind the Coop. The Gallery is in the loft of an old paint shop and it bears many scars of its early career. Ethereal verse occasionally seeps through the wall from the Poet's Theatre and various raven-haired avant-garde types waft in and out on various clouds...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Paul Schuster's Art Gallery | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

...tight money finally beginning to ease? Last week the fact that the Treasury's twelve-year bond issue was oversubscribed nine times was a clear sign to some Wall Streeters that it is. To the surprise of the Treasury, there were $4.6 billion worth of takers for the $500 million in long-term bonds, with the result that large investors had to be rationed to 10% of their requests. Only three months ago former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey told the Senate Finance Committee that he doubted whether the Government could sell a long-term bond. Having done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Easier Money? | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...idea occurs to a lifer named Arnie (Jack Palance), whose brother (also portrayed by Actor Palance) happens to be his dead-ringer. To his brother and his ever-loving wife (Barbara Lang), Arnie communicates his plan: let his brother jump the wall of the prison's industrial area, which is lightly guarded during the night, and hide in a stack of crates. Next night Arnie will hide in the crates while his brother sleeps in the cell; during the night Arnie will dig a man-sized hole in the ground near the prison wall, cover it with boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: House of Numbers | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...residential district, where Arnie's wife will pick him up. As soon as the news of the kidnaping reaches the police, they will assume that the prisoner has escaped, and relax precautions. Whereupon Prisoner Palance will pop out of his hole and over the wall to freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: House of Numbers | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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