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Word: cheerful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more good-than the U.S. businessman. He empties a sackful of gifts on expectant customers, fellow executives, public officials, newspaper editors and anyone else who creeps onto his list. The list has grown so long that today the Santas-in-pin-stripes spend something like $1 billion on yuletide cheer: $300 million for liquor, the rest for a stockingful of loot ranging from $2.50 puddings to $2,500 pianos. The giving is not necessarily due to an excess of Christmas spirit; businessmen simply think that they must. As Denver Radio Station Owner Gene Amole says: "Giving business Christmas presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAT CHRISTMAS LOOT,: Santa Bring More Headaches Than Cheer | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...sophomore year seem to occur at the outposts of the Harvard-Radcliffe camps. All-girl tutorials with a woman tutor, especially in a "masculine" field such as Government, often lack the gusto necessary to valuable discussion. On the other hand, many all-male group tutorials degenerate into beer and cheer sessions, where the tutors is "one of the boys" and becomes less responsible. There are some defenders of House privacy who argue that a breezy informality is a necessary prerequisite of learning, but the weight of evidence would indicate that the tutorial meeting, like the classroom, does not suffer when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open House | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

HAPPy days are HERE again! THUH skies aBOVE are CLEAR again! Let us SING a SONG of CHEER again! HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...some people accustomed to thinking of their football spectating largely in terms of good companionship, good liquor, and general good cheer, it may seem rather harsh that a Harvard-Yale game should ever be a "grudge match." Yet there is no denying that most of the ingredients will be there when these two teams meet for the 75th time, beginning at 1:30 this afternoon in the Stadium...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Crimson Eleven Favored to Wreak Revenge Against Yale Today Before Crowd of 40,000 | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...Frederick Houston '23, of the Vermont State Police commented, "Those girls gave us the chase of our lives. It was really heart-rending to have to arrest all those beautiful girls with their red and white skirts, and their megaphones and pom-poms. Those girls wanted very much to cheer at the Harvard-Yale game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kuties Knabbed | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

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