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Word: wrights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine 71 (one under men's par, four under women's par), hit the halfway mark tied for second with Wiffi Smith, 20, a broad-based, freckle-nosed newcomer to the pro ranks from St. Clair, Mich. Just one stroke in front, San Diego's Mickey Wright, 22, had a 36-hole total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pros Against Par | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...first, entitled "Dedication," is a chorale; the other, "Lonely Men of Harvard," is termed by its authors a "lament-march." G. Wright Briggs Jr. '31, director of the Harvard Band, said that "Dedication" represented Bernstein in a musically elevated mood, whereas the other piece was "typically Broadway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bernstein, Lerner Collaboration Produces New Harvard Songs | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

...sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people in his presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...audiences for Gubernatorial Candidate Martin Conner; at 21 he went to Washington as Mississippi Congressman Aaron L. Ford's secretary. Returning home with an Indiana-born wife, Coleman progressed from district attorney to Circuit Court judge to Supreme Court commissioner. He became attorney general under Governor Fielding Wright, in 1948 Dixiecrat vice-presidential nominee. In 1955 Coleman defeated Wright and three other candidates to become Mississippi's 51st governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: The Six-Foot Wedge | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Although all agreed on Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Woodrow Wilson, and Henry Ford, each professor had separate candidates for the last two positions in the line-up. Professor Schlesinger supported Theodore Roosevelt '81 and Sinclair Lewis against Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Luce, and John Dewey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Choose Most Influential Men | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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