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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monro said the crook took advantage of extreme confusion in Memorial Hall to get his authorizations last fall, but apparently acquired a stamp some time in February and just by-passed the spring term book lines. Different book cards, with different numbers, were used

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crook Bilks Book Office Out of $150 | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

These knowing rules-of-thumb for the aspiring back pose as "Advice to the Young Writer," and in the confusion between the two there is a danger that Signature has failed to notice. If a college literary magazine advises young writers to serve up the saccharine puree that Good Housekeeping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Signature: two easy lessons for hack writing | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

Some information is more assimilable than other information. Facts, as Mark Twain noted, can be presented in such a way that they merely create "confusion of the mind and congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: $ 1.48 and the Woman at the Well | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

The myth of "objective journalism" reached its height about 1938-39, before the Hitler-Stalin pact, before the sharp cleavage of war reminded the Western world that the famed "two sides of a question" are not always, or even often, equal. In the confusion of the late '303, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: Facts a la Tartare | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Black & White Confusion. Author Whyte considers the years between 1914 and 1944 another Thirty Years' War. "For thirty years the human mind has suffered confusion, myriads of lives have suffered premature disaster, and the necessities of war still dominate life and thought. Yet this half-century has not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unitary Man | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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