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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Fear is a discarded crutch, and social conscience must take its place," he said, adding that "in the final analysis, character determines sexual behavior."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fletcher Sees Religious Solution to Sex Problem | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

Most of the cast of "The Road to Rome" has had Broadway experience and three were no glaring evidences of amateurism. Robert Harris as Fabius Maximus was very comical in the role of the frightened politician-turned-dictator. Huge Franklin as Hannibal and Michael Sivy as his younger brother gave...

Author: By George A. Leiper., | Title: The Road to Rome | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

Montgomery tries hard to give the impression that Saxon is this formidable character, but he is boxed in by a bunch of wooden actors and actresses, situations that are generally picayune, and dialogue that is crumby. So, in spite of Montgomery, Saxon fails to frighten anybody, and his machinations have...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Saxon Charm | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

Advantages to be derived from a formal football league would also include regularization of scholastic entrance requirements and eligibility rules for "young men of sterling moral character, who, fortuitously, can also do things to or with a football," and more serious attention to related problems of scholastic aid for academically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Alumni Monthly Pushes Official Ivy League | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

Faustus will be considered a masterpiece by some, a bore by many. A good deal of it reads like Mann's heaviest formal essays. To those who look for it, however, the book offers a masterful explanation of those sides of the German character that welcomed Hitler. Most readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case History of a Genius | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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