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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Definite plans for the WAVES at Radcliffe are a long way from formulation, according to President Ada L. Comstock. The press reports in yesterday's afternoon papers showed general confusion as to the details of the new school, and no official comments were available.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAVES Still Lost in Storm; Seeking Port at Radcliffe | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

When a Sweet Swing devotee tries to struggle out of the ooze and goo that is Lombardo, and investigate this thing called jazz, he is generally licked from the start. He is seized upon by friends steeped in jazz lore and subjected to Gutbucket Gus and his Dixieland Breakdowners. Appalled...

Author: By Hallowell Bowser, | Title: Swing | 10/6/1942 | See Source »

A new national ruling empowers General Smith to carry out his threat: local boards may now "consider anew the classification" of a registrant who "is not supporting or is adversely affecting the war effort." But like most phases of the draft, its use to enforce work-or-fight rulings is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Work or Fight | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Labor's London Daily Herald editorialized that "center parties have no place in the British political system. They create a confusion in which democracy is weakened and dictatorship fertilized." Randolph snapped back with an attack on "unrepentant Munichmen" and Trades Union Congress Laborites. "more anxious to have political power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Balloon & the Cigar | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Nowhere were there signs such as portend an army's breakup, no sudden quickening of the enemy advance, no telling breakthroughs, no confusion and disintegration in rear communications. On the contrary, the German advance was slower, if anything, inch by inch into Stalingrad. Russian communications were still in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: After Stalingrad? | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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