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Word: commenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comment on your report? . . . Abortion must be approved by at least two doctors, in many cases by the Swedish Medical Board. Women seeking abortion are also studied by social workers, and an attempt is made to help them whether they get an abortion or not . . . Unlike most Roman Catholic countries, Sweden has little prostitution. The illegitimacy rate is far lower than in most Roman Catholic countries, and many children born out of wedlock are legitimized by subsequent marriage. Quoting a Roman Catholic priest on Sweden would be a good deal like quoting a Communist on American democracy ! . . . The most shocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...school professor remarked this morning that he would have like to review the book review, but he didn't know how to spell his one word comment, a sound eminated by putting ones tongue between ones check and trying to whistle. Laurence Levine and Phil Costello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Peter B. Barlow '58 and Robert D. Storey '58, leaders of the group, refused to comment on why they had cancelled the excursion, but one member of the group explained that the planners had decided to cancel the trip to avoid "ill feelings" after pressure from the Jubilee Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excursion Is Blocked By Jubilee Committee | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

...religious tone continues in PEOPLE with a reference to Billy Graham's understandable reluctance to include man's dumb friends in his ministrations . . . Follows the RELIGION section. Good taste prohibits critical comment of other people's devotional gymnastics . . . CINEMA includes a review of a minister's filmed biography. Boy, oh boy, did you go overboard! We cannot help but admire the fine attitude of your reviewer, who bewails the fact that "the story has depressingly little to say about religion . . ." You strike the final blow for the church in BOOKS-by printing the miserable caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Reds have not yet achieved all their objectives, but so far only a handful of students have dared to resist openly, among them the murdered Lee Tai Lim. Few students cared or dared to comment on Lee's death, and only twelve attended his funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Murder in Singapore | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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