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Word: deadness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronouncements of the past few weeks. If the United States is to retain the respect of the Spanish-speaking countries south of the Rio Grande, it must quickly develop a realistic and sensible attitude toward Cuban internal affairs.The president of the student body of Havana University lies dead after being shot down in the gutter before the university. A student resistance movement was named after the date of his death, March 13, 1957. His successor met a similar fate...

Author: By Warren KAPLAN L, | Title: Law Student Visits Castro's Cuba: Soldiers and Inhabitants Exultant | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

Organized under the direction of Michael Strauss '59, seen here eaxmining "The Dead Talmudist," and Michael Macdonald '60, the Fogg Museum's new exhibition, "Student Collections," will open on Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Objects d'Art Prepared for Exhibit | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

...self respecting woman would let herself be painted like that." There is also a soft but deceitful matron, to whom Jimson was once married, and a Lord and his wife whose wall Jimson must have to paint his great panorama of the rising of Lazarus. He finally gets dead drunk in their living room, imports a number of oriental types whose feet he wants to paint, and, quoting lines from the omnipresent Blake, sets to work...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Horse's Mouth | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

...tools, put the poem back together, and plugged it in again, so others, also on life tenure at a university, could unplug it once more and reveal its meaning.) Unfortunately for the poets of America, the tool set worked best on the august Poets-Across-the-Sea, preferably very dead ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An American Comedy | 2/4/1959 | See Source »

...just chock full of facts, and I was able to use them at least a dozen times today. For instance, I was in a conversational circle today that was revolving around Bernstein (Estrella Bernstein, our cleaning woman) and I just usually dropped the fact that Cecil B. DeMille was dead. You remember--your latest issue devoted nearly three-quarters of a page to his career as an "epic-maker." My, was I surprised, when Estrella told me he'd been dead since January 21--12 days. But I won out anyway by dropping one of your writers' bon mots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thank-You Note | 2/4/1959 | See Source »

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