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Word: dearest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flags, joined by hundreds of gift-bearing sympathizers, members of Locals 578 and 584, Textile Workers Union of America, jammed Henderson's National Guard armory, raised the rafters with well-tuned pentecostal voices and stood reverently as Mrs. Nannie Hughes, a millworker for 45 years, besought the Almighty. "Dearest Lord," implored Grandmother Hughes in an eight-minute prayer, "look especially into the heart of one so hard and bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Struggle in Dixie | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Divorces Preaching from Pedagogy Dominant University Attitude: Commitment to Non-Commitment | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...rate, there is little danger of confusion. Boston's Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two with Tracy | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Governors landed at Montpelier, Vt. to be greeted by 19-gun salutes, a joint session of the legislature, tours to nearby Strathmore woolen mills and learned dinner talks on how other businessmen should imitate Owner Goldfine. Among the honored guests was one of Bernie Goldfine's oldest and dearest friends. New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams. Other New England politicians whom he warmly befriended: New Hampshire's Republican Senators Styles Bridges ("one of my very best friends") and Norris Cotton (who owns 10% of Goldfine's Lebondale Mills). Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UP FROM EAST BOSTON: The Man Who Was Friend to Politicians | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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