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Word: spectacular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compare with the 19th century chores of young Edwin Booth, who led his father, Junius Brutus Booth, staggering from the corner saloon; or Stella Campbell, who turned her back on Sir Beerbohm Tree so often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly announced her departure from Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: One Touch of . . . | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...with Founder Thomas Jeffrey's Rambler, a one-cylinder runabout, was bought in 1916 by Charles Nash, president of General Motors, who introduced the first Nash in 1917. As solid and conservative as its uninspiring cars, Nash had for years been a profitable but never a spectacular company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Against the less seasoned players of M.I.T., Harvard pushed over three touch downs and made a conversion, winning 11-0. The "three-quarters" or backs were spectacular. Ted Frembgen put Harvard into the lead in the second half, and Langy Kavaliku, Harvard's outstanding player, followed with two thirty yard touchdown runs, one on a pass from Hal Churchill. Graham Russell kicked the conversion. Getting excellent play from its relatively inexperienced forwards, Hank Keohane in particular, the Crimson edged Amherst in the final round, 3-0. Dave Holmes produced the winning tally on a 25 yard run. Capt. Churchill felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Rugby Wins in Bermuda | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Four of the Harvard scores came in the sixth inning on five hits, Davis' triple the most spectacular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Baseball Squad Victorious On Annual Spring Tour in Virginia | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Clint Walker (6 ft. 6 in.. 235 lbs., 48-32-36), who after a spectacular case of bunkhouse sulks will shortly resume the big hat in Cheyenne, a routine ride-'em-cowboy story, is generally known in Hollywood as "the next John Wayne." At 31 he looks rather like an unweathered Wayne, with a nice, uneventful face and a chest as big as a wardrobe-on producer's orders, he bares it at least once a program. But unfortunately, Clint, according to the people he works with, is "a mighty mixed-up kid." He is a nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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