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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Same as Chemistry. Time after time, Georgia-born Bill Spivey grabbed off Kansas passes intended for Lovellette. Once he stole the ball right out of the Kansan's hands, dribbled the length of the floor to score. By half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12. The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding. Spivey himself had scored 22 points (high for the game). When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready & Loaded | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...vice president, a war counselor who arranged the time & place for gang "rumbles" (wars), and a "light-up" man in charge of the arsenal. The boys spent their time in endless bull sessions at their "hangouts"-a candy store, bar or front stoop. They played hooky, smoked marijuana, stole, carried knives, revolvers and zip guns. They saw nothing shameful in forcing neighborhood girls into sex relations, often with several members of the gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Experiment in Infiltration | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Committed Battalions. During Stanton's presidency, CBS first stole a march on RCA Victor by launching the 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record. At the end of 1948, CBS launched a full-scale talent raid on NBC, and captured such topflight entertainers as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton. Last October, CBS won what seemed at the time to be its biggest victory of all: a 5-to-2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission in favor of CBS's color TV over the rival systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...nominate the greatest criminal in history, the man who stole nearly two whole continents and killed 13 million persons with his ideology: "Handlebar Joe" Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...weeks since Yale authorities announced the disappearance of the Edward S. Harkness Trophy. This silver cup, emblematic of the Harvard-Yale intramural championship, was stole from the Yale Trophy room and as yet it has not been found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harkness Trophy Still Not Found; Thieves Unknown | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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