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Word: clockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hives Ready to Swarm. Knox's humor sparked and crackled through everything he did. Writing of the Mass, he remarked that the recurring word or emus (let us pray) "serves as a useful sort of alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Witty Monsignor | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...other hand, says Woodring, critics who would correct these faults by turning back the clock are as badly mistaken as those who insist that all goes well with the school. True enough, "the classic thesis has many of the essential characteristics of a sound philosophy of education; yet, in a very real sense, it has failed to meet the challenge of the 20th century. It either could not, or did not, effectively cope with the problems presented by the extension of universal public education up through the high school. By ignoring all psychological findings regarding the nature of the learner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time for a Synthesis | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...something to believe in. She learns most from Balthazar, an initiate of the cabala, whose crypticisms ("Passionate love even for a man's own wife is also adultery") leave her in such a state that "at night you can hear her brain ticking like a cheap alarm-clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eros in Alexandria | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Laura: Last Sunday you began at 4 o'clock; today you begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death in the Afternoon | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...busiest exam hour is 2:15 next Monday afternoon when 880, who had 9 o'clock classes during the Summer School, take their exams. While on Monday morning at 9:15 only the 251 unlucky souls, who had 8 o'clock classes, will attempt to fill their blue-books...

Author: By Sidney CLIFFORD Jr., | Title: Approximately 3251 Scheduled To Write in 4000 Bluebooks | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

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