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Word: consisting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief characters, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...

Author: By Daniel Eilsbery, | Title: Soldiers and Whores | 3/15/1951 | See Source »

...dormitory, which will be built off the west end of Moors Hall, will house 100 students, and will consist of double rooms only. Primarily constructed for music majors, the dormitory will have a music library, and more than the usual number of practice rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holmes Construction To Begin in Summer; Houses Music Majors | 3/2/1951 | See Source »

...Synthetic sapphires and rubies are made artificially of aluminum oxide, are therefore the same chemically as their natural counterparts. Natural diamonds consist of carbon, so gems of titanium dioxide cannot be called "synthetic diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diamond Rival | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...comedy between the first and second acts. The last two-thirds of the play contains some of the dreariest, and generally unfunniest talk imaginable. Every once in a while a funny line comes along, but the dullness of the rest of the dialogue is stupefying. Miss Bel Geddes' lines consist of a string of incredibly stupid questions, each of which exasperates Mr. Nelson anew. This is something short of rippling dialogue...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

Frenchie (Universal-International) tries hard to spice up horse opera with sex appeal. Its wide open spaces consist mostly of the territory just north of Shelley Winters' neckline, and about the only rustling in the picture is the sound of hip-tossed taffeta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Out West | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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