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Word: adamantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With dry Yankee humor he estimated what would have happened if the alarmists' theories on population growth were correct: "I computed last night that if Adam and Eve started this game about 4000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep. Those who would be allocated the desert would be very much distressed, those allocated to the oceans would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: PRODUCTION | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Lily Sammile is Lilith, the female demon of Jewish folklore, the first wife of Adam, who wanders the world caressing men with her gritty hand, kissing them with her dusty mouth, luring them to the forgotten cemetery shed, which is the Gatehouse of Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Foster was number two man this year behind his brother, Henry and takes over the captaincy of Jim McKittrick. A third, brother, Adam, captained the squash team two years ago. Adams Sherman Hill, Jr. '51 of Cambridge and Dudley Hall, was named manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers, Squash Team Pick Heads | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

Kirkland's food is equalled only by the four other Houses who are fed from the central kitchen, and surpassed only by Adam's homecooking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Rests Its Case On Achievements, Sports | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

Beneath a huge mural showing the temptation of Adam by Eve, tall, husky Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting U.N. mediator for Palestine, sat impassively at the head of the table, with a cigarette dangling, as usual, from his lips. Bushy-haired Dr. Walter Eytan of Israel's Foreign Office smoked a pipe. Both of the colonels from Egypt puffed cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Peace in a Smoke-Filled Room | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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