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Word: pittsburgh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style of dress, architecture and behavior to be seen in the ruins and sculptures of Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley that nourished and died 4,000 years ago. Yet next door to the oxcart and the primitive wooden plow lies an India as modern as Pittsburgh, with belching smoke by day and glaring fire by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...need not have lost any sleep. Next night against Memphis State, Lucas was a spring-legged hotshot. In one span of 77 sec., he scored 8 points (2 tap-ins, 4 foul shots), finished with 34 points in his team's 94-55 victory. Two nights later against Pittsburgh, Big Luke was the key of Ohio State's tight man-to-man defense. On offense, he roved the pivot, scoring 24 points (with a fantastic shooting average of 73% from the floor), directing teammates in his deep, sober voice ("Come on in, John, come in"). Final score: Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Luke | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

TEEN-AGE CREDIT PLANS are being offered by 100 department stores, including Pittsburgh's Sears, Roebuck, Baltimore's Hochschild & Kohn. Accounts require parents' O.K. but are not guaranteed by them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Diminishing Returns. In Pittsburgh, John James, 19, was arrested for stealing one car, stealing a second to push the first when it broke down, then siphoning gas from a third after the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Eruptions & Clusters. Around the league this season, the pros are displaying a variety of play that college football cannot match. Canny, veteran quarterbacks such as Philadelphia's Norm Van Brocklin, 33, and Pittsburgh's Bobby Layne, 32, still dominate their teams. With a tricky, lateraling attack, the Chicago Cardinals can erupt for clusters of points. Last year's champion Baltimore Colts can field a covey of stars led by young (26) Johnny Unitas, a onetime reject from the Pittsburgh Steelers who is rated the best quarterback in football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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