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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to maintain the large house after the death of her husband, Mrs. Hicks later moved her family two streets north to the present Winthrop Street. The house, now a relic at the tender age of twenty-two, was allowed to fall into disrepair. A new owner was found, Foxcroft by name, who enlarged the building with an ell to the back that included a kitchen that new houses Kirkland's collection on political theory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...qualified "recommendation" was sufficiently broad to allow the publishers of King Jesus (Creative Age Press) to advertise: "A Religious Book Club Recommendation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Getting set on characters, plot and locale, and leaving plenty of elbow room for years of future plotting, was a carefully thought out job. Hero Steve Canyon will look something like an older Terry ("I'll never mention his age") but, says Caniff, there's a difference: "Steve Canyon's been around . . . this guy might have been in love a dozen times." Steve's aviation taxi service covers the globe (slogan: "You furnish the reason, we'll furnish the ride"). Caniff gave his hero a roving job so that he could work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Brothels, Boorishness. "Lyovochka the bubble," as he became known to his three elder brothers, took life with gusto from the start. He loved pillow fights and, at the age of nine, a pretty little house guest whom he pushed downstairs because she gave him too little attention. He was ugly, and in his teens dismayed society by not only looking but behaving like a troglodyte, as Turgenev called him. Neither dressing like a fop nor training on horizontal bars brought the shy Count success with fashionable ladies. He took refuge in boorishness and brothels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tolstoy, Troglodyte | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...period 1929 to 1946 the percent-age of men majoring in Arts and Letters dropped 18.1 percent while Social Sciences jumped into the lead by gaining 10.9 percent and Natural Science, new in second place, added 16.8 percent. This year the total percentage distribution in the three areas are Social Science 48 percent, Natural Science 30 percent, and Arts and Letters 21 percent. One percent of the upperclassmen have not selected a field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social and Natural Sciences Boom Since 1929 While Arts-Letters Fade | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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