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Word: commented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your comment that Connecticut's Blue Law is widely disregarded [TIME, April 21] is a gross understatement. In both Massachusetts and Connecticut it is illegal for doctors to give contraceptive advice to married women, and the Roman Catholic citizens are told that "Birth Control is against God's Law." Yet the birth rates in these two states are among the lowest in the country, and before the war were lower than those of France-about one-third of the physiological maximum. Obviously the majority of the people in both states practice birth control regardless of legal restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Messiah Robert K. Bingham '48 will speak . . . against modern life . . . in general," he continued, adding that the Society "feels strongly" about tinfoil, but can make no relevant comment at the present time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Society Takes Ether Tonight in Struggle To Preserve Species | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

...going to go on looking pretty and until the weather gives us a break and we get in some practice," was Coach Barnaby's sole comment as the Varsity tennis team prepared to travel to Medford to face Tufts today. Although Harvard has never dropped a match to the Jumbos, Barnaby refuses to go out on a limb about today's match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team to Face Jumbo Varsity Today; '50 Tackles Andover | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

...point he was asked to comment on a previous witness' statement: "What Alaska needs is white women and roads." Governor Gruening laughed, said he thought that women would come north if roads and other facilities for civilized living were available. Said a committee member, Nevada's Charles H. Russell (Republican): "In other words, you would put it 'roads and white women.' " Gruening smilingly assented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: 49th State? | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...their 44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany. Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked. "No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: £20 A-Begging | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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