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Word: classical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Hal Ulen unofficially opens the varsity swimming season at 7:30 p.m. tonight with the annual classic, the alumni meet. The informal gathering will begin when enough alumni arrive; and the places they cannot fill will go to varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Faces Varsity Squad In Swimming Meet Tonight | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight who is used to fill out the classic triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Sand | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Representing Broadway was Robert Breen's, director of the American National Academy. Breen's approval, Brattle directors feel, will determine how far reliance on a semi-classic theater repertoire pays off in cold cash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Company Opens 'Henry IV' | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

Vermont Farmer-Poet Robert Frost, 74, took a trip down to Manhattan to receive the Limited Editions Club's fifth gold medal for his Complete Poems, judged the book published in the last five years "most likely to attain the stature of a classic." Speaking to 300 breakfast guests, he became flustered for a moment and couldn't remember the opening lines of his famous poem about ants in a hive burying a fellow ant, which concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...demolishes a half dozen or so of his comrades in a friendly bar-room test of strength--one of the three interior scenes in the whole picture. These scenes, in the best tradition of the Western, have never been done better. This movie is a very particular kind of classic. If you like that kind...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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