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Word: colon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system for writing exams and term papers. Unfortunately, the faculty has been wising up recently and such veteran maneuvers as the missing blue book no longer work. In its place we recommend the following five new fresh approaches to the problem of feigning knowledge: 1) The use of the colon; 2) the graduating senior ploy; 3) The Chinese ploy; 4) The Radcliffe ploy; 5) The room-mate export or phony reference ploy...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

...respect two things colon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . .VOX POPULI. . . | 10/28/1950 | See Source »

...Psychiatrist Meduna claims to have a possible answer: a few sniffs of the gas which puts the bubbles in soda water. This, according to Dr. Meduna, may make psychoanalysis unnecessary. And, he contends, it is wonderfully effective for anxiety, inferiority complexes and homosexuality, or such psychosomatic complaints as spastic colon, frigidity, impotence and stuttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shocking & Choking | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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