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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When asked how the agency intended to distinguish jokers from legitimate customers, he explained, "We'll have to rely on what the girl tells us, just as she'll have to rely on us for a man of reasonably good character. There's an element of risk involved for both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Escort Agency Courts 'Cliffe Students | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Most important were two Geiger tubes, one of them unshielded, the other wrapped in sheet lead about ⅛ in. thick. Devised by Professor James Van Allen of State University of Iowa, they watched the double belt of radiation that bears Van Allen's name. The naked tube reported all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: U.S. Planet | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

"Football does not build the character," Thompson returned. "It's no substitute for motherhood."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Football Instructor Debates Coach | 3/11/1959 | See Source »

Style, style is the one thing needful for Earnest, and the Rep's actors can provide it only intermittently. In this most artificial of comedies the actors must look and sound as if they lived in the world of the play, not as if they were assuming certain mannerisms as...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Importance of Being Earnest | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

Planning to capture the biggest bandit of them all, Venka teams up with a peasant named Baukin, himself a former bandit who has gone straight. When the big raid is finished and the big bad chief is captured, Venka gives all credit to his peasant partner, assumes that he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Swift in Siberia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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