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Word: challengee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was also a challenge to the actors, who met it only middling well. Robert Fletcher, for the most part, had sufficient vitality for his part as Don Juan. The star, however, was not impressive. In her unwillingness, as Dona Ana, to accept the kind of Hell and Heaven she...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Particular attention will be devoted to a report and analysis of the "Peek-skill Incidents," and its challenge they presented to the concept of free assembly.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ciardi, Others Will Analyze Civil Rights Issues Tonight | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

Laureano, his angry face as red-veined as a banknote, met this challenge personally. "When Conservative lips proclaim peace," he told the nominating convention last week, "they do so with sincerity. Our hearts are not poisoned with hateful desires to destroy the Christian order and replace it with Communist tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLUMBIA: God's Angry Man | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

After ten years of Superman's astounding antics, McClure Newspaper Syndicate and National Comics Publications thought that readers might be getting bored with their comic-strip hero's invulnerability. Last week the syndicators decided to put Superman in a position where he may lose an occasional round. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Most Intimate Problem | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

The World Federalists will challenge the Harvard United Nations Council tonight to defend the success of the UN.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN Council to Debate World Federalists on Revising UN Tonight | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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