Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more amazed than amazing [TIME, May 1]. When your valued periodical reached me, I . . . measured the Baldwin shelf. To be accurate, the two shelves sagging under the output of somewhat less than 30 years, thank you, measure, together, eight feet . . . I would be beholden to you if you would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there...
...FAITH BALDWIN New Canaan, Conn...
HARVARD--Attack: Hudner, Plissner, Yost or Baldwin; Midfield: Birdsall, Davidson (C), Post; Defense: Byrne, Coburn, Spence; Goal: Clark...
Miss Theresa L. Baldwin has typed at 18 Brattle Street for the last ten years. The work has been absorbing, she reports, because it involves an interesting personality, the Harvard male. From English A to job applications, Miss Baldwin mixes typing with a maternal affection...
Varsity: Davidson (Baldwin), Plissner (Graham), Graham (Hudner), Baldwin (unassisted...