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Word: daze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passing attack and a tremendous defense in holding the heavily favored Middies to a stand-off. A group of 1,900 Midshipmen, in Philadelphia for Penn's Junior Weekend and the Navy's first free period of the fall, staggered off to the post-game fraternity parties in a daze...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Quakers Loom as Football Power | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...than in most "civilized" art. The idea struck Moore's imagination as sharply as a chisel striking stone. After two years at Leeds, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London and discovered the primitive sculpture in the British Museum. "I was in a daze of excitement. I would literally float home on the top of an open-deck bus at the end of each visit." He was affected by all-Egyptian, Sumerian. Etruscan, archaic Greek, Norman, Romanesque, and especially by the art of ancient Mexico. One of his first reclining women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...syntax"). Higher Learning (he could find only "an immense amount of Lower Learning" in the U.S.), and the Ph.D. racket (TIME, Nov. 25, 1957). In American Scholar Barzun castigates his latest victim: detective stories, which, he says, have fallen on evil days, turning increasingly into "novels of haze and daze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crisis in Mysteries | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Good Old Daze. In Knoxville, Tenn., police reported that a thief had broken into an auto service department, taken a 1952 used car valued at $600, passed up two 1958 models worth $7,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Combustion and Chlorine focus narrowly on their subjects, show only a pair of hands-those of Phillips Academy (Andover) Chemistry Master Elbert Weaver -performing experiments. Explanations are amplified by animated drawings showing molecular action. Weaver's scripts are tough enough to keep students out of that double-feature daze, call for as much attention as a classroom lecture. The films present no chemical formulae and do not show a periodic table-these can be handled better by textbooks and classroom charts. The Manufacturing Chemists' Association, which commissioned the films (cost: $20,000 each), will distribute them through nonprofit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Films that Teach | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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