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Word: willises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outstanding victories by Art Willis in the mile and Dick Wharton in 1000, along with Joel Cohen's win in the 60-yard high hurdles, gave the varsity a slight lead on Yale. But hen Yale won the pole vault, the jumps, the hammer, and the shot, even the varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Track Team Edges Crimson; Princeton Last in Triangular Meet | 2/23/1955 | See Source »

Last week in North Carolina, the biggest paper in the state showed how Southern dailies are making the best of it. The Charlotte Observer (circ. 136,302) opposed a proposal for the state legislature to adopt a "declaration of policy" favoring segregation, saying that debate on such a measure would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The No. 1 Story | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

In Washington Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright helped push the market down by announcing that his Banking and Currency Committee "probably will make a study" of the market's recent sharp rise. Said Fulbright: "The situation looks very dangerous to me. It is too reminiscent of 1929." Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Finger Shaker | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

5 (Phyllis Curtin and eight cellos conducted by Willis Page; Cook). The tangy modern masterpiece, notable for exciting singing and the highest fidelity sound.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Year's Best Records | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

In Mt. Dora, Fla. one day last week, someone drew a chalk line down the school sidewalk for all the pupils to see. One side was labeled "White People," the other "Nigger Lovers." Reason for the line: 65 of the pupils had just signed a special petition to TIME about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Care | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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