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Word: stellar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still groggy from their gruelling game with Andover on Saturday, the freshmen couldn't form their attack in the first half and only the stellar defensive play of fullbacks Charley Ufford and Bob Sobel enabled goalie Rog Taylor to break up the frequent Medford threats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Soccer Team Defeats Medford High by 1-0 Score | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

This is BU's season-opener. With Godin firing away, with his mates providing the timely hitting and stellar fielding they showed they are capable of on Saturday--it could be an unpleasant 1949 christening for the intowners...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Nine Tackles BU in Home Opener | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

Buddy King brought the Crimson its first three points after the Tigers had built up an 11-0 lead and Howie Houston added the last five with a pin of heavyweight Reddy Finney in his first real test Houston's stellar performance brought the crowd of 1500 to its feet. In between, however, the Tigers scored pins in the lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight divisions...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Nassau Wrestlers Mangle Crimson Squad Here, 28-8 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Steve Howe, currently flashing a sharp 465 batting average, should back up Clay's consistently stellar pitching with support at the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard, J.V. Nines Finish Against Eli | 5/14/1948 | See Source »

Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of CalTech (who doubles in rocket propulsion) hopes to go gunning with the 200-inch for neutron stars and gravitational lenses. Various theories of stellar evolution tell how stars may be born and decline to stellar senility. Zwicky thinks that the last stage may be a star made up chiefly of neutrons. Since neutrons are very much denser than atoms, such stars might be only ten miles in diameter. Every cubic centimeter of their volume would weigh, Zwicky figures, about one million tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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