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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emerson Hall corridor between classes on Monday and were badly mutilated under foot. We are therefore unable to identify the author; but we do know he is an assistant professor, for in the torn, smudged corner of the title page one can still make out the three letters "ASS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Many in a Phone Booth? | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...touched would turn to gold, and his wish was granted, even to the inclusion of whatever touched his lips. Before the laughing gods allowed him to rescind his wish, Midas almost died of thirst. As for his taste in music, Midas had the long, pointed ears of an ass, according to the Greeks, because in judging a musical contest he had preferred Pan to Apollo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Missing Link | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...rent some of his gaudier noisemakers, but one favorite set of instruments he already had on hand: the eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums that he picked up two years ago in an automobile junk yard. Still missing from the ensemble's instrument list: the jawbone of an ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Variations on a Brake Drum | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Adams: Harvard Bridge Club; Harvard Dramatic Club; HarHarvard Glee Club, Ass't Manager, Secretary; Harvard Freshman Glee Club, Manager; University Choir; Hasty Pudding; House Soccer, Squash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Senior Class Marshals | 12/10/1958 | See Source »

...could be gossipy ("The Hayes suffer much from rats in the White House who run over their bed and nibble the President's toes"), or just plain lethal ("Not until I had seen and heard Judge Drake of the Court of Claims did I know what an ass was & is-he must be self made-it would be blasphemy to attribute him to any other creator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adams & Eve | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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