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Word: convincingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Written Denial. Last week, his investigation exposed as a sad and cynical farce, Bender was threatening to sue any publication that reprinted Washington Post and Times Herald Cartoonist Herblock's devastating version of the Bender investigation (see cut). But when a newsman asked to see some of the evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Confessions, Anyone? | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

While the Kamikaze still swirled over the Pacific, public opinion in the U.S. stormed against a regime and a culture that could send men to certain death in suicide attacks. After war's end lifted their censorship, the Japanese joined in the controversy, took potshots at their own side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Kamikaze Spirit | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Seven meet records fell last night as the Crimson varsity track squad walloped Boston University 72 1/3 to 36 2/3 and the Yardling team defeated the B.U. Freshmen by an almost equally convincing 65-44 margin. In addition, two B.U. marks and two Briggs Cage standards were beaten in one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Records Fall as Tracksters Top B.U. Terriers in Season Opener | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

Stupid Samurai. For all its disparate characters, the show maintains its continuity with the fine performances of its two steady stars. As wagon master, Bond, with his 215-lb. weatherbeaten hulk, is more consistently convincing than he ever was during his movie career. As trail scout, handsome Robert Horton, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Westward the Wagons | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

2) "College teaches you to think clearly." So long as clarity of thought remains undefined, this view of the college remains nebulously convincing. To make it helpful, however, we must look at a variety of common interpretations.

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Higher Education for Women; Problem in the Marketplace | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

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