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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucks at Stillman should be patently clear. And if the Dean's Office is going to say "Stop" and "Go" to College publications, it should broadcast the whys and wherefores ahead of time. Last term there were charges of political prejudice and other angry words when University Hall invoked certain unfamiliar rules against the New Student magazine, which was already set up in type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Code for Campaigners | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...story is told concerning certain foolhardy Athenians who had the misfortune to look the wicked Medusa squarely in the face -they were turned instantly into stone. I think TIME readers all over the world, who might today be stalagmites, should thank your cover artist for painting Comrade Ana Pauker's features in profile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Beyond a certain point, the Southerner will not or cannot give a reasonable answer to the Negro problem. It is not, he feels, a reasonable problem. And it was not a problem that he brought on himself. It is his business to live with it, but it is no more capable of overnight solution than any other vexation he inherited. This sense of irrational frustration reduces most Southerners to the flat statements of defiance with which they commonly respond when a Northerner-especially a Northern "liberal"-attacks them on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Southern Revolt | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Pudgy, petulant Fletcher Bowron was not accustomed to admiration and praise. He had lived up to the prophecy he made when he was elected: "I feel certain that I will prove an unpopular mayor." He had angered almost every important group in town-labor, the newspapers, the merchants, the oilmen, the building trades. He had feuded bitterly with his isman City Council. A reformer with a Calvinist's crusading zeal, he has driven corruption out of City Hall and the Police Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Bowron's Boom Town | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Rita must have done some heavy thinking on her own because she collected a quarter of a million dollars for her artistic efforts. Certain of these efforts deserve comment: (1) Miss Hayworth can wear more clothes and still look under than any female this side of a Restoration book jacket. (2) She can get off a wall and into a man's arms in less time than it takes Leo Durocher to descend on a plate umpire. (3) Rita can achieve more in one glance than Mayor Curley in three terms. (4) She is the only actress in Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Loves of Carmen" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

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