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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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3) Also on Thursday the Council will make a poll on the subject of Red Books, in an attempt to discover if there is strong student desire for them.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Maps NSA Election, House Voting, Red Book Poll | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

While focusing on Morgan's character, the book clearly reveals the motives that led the financier on his dazzling career. Certainly it was hard to believe with the muckrakers that men of wealth were guided only by an insane desire to accumulate millions. Instead, Allen shows the financial giant with...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

The Trap. Some organizations are created by the special demands of doing business and producing things in the machine age, e.g., the corporation. Others are caused by man's desire to protect himself against the machine age, e.g., labor unions. To all these, as once to the feudal castles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: ORGANIZATIONS | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Playwright Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire) was paying the price of international fame. A Tokyo producer, making out an application to SCAP for permission to put on two of Williams' plays, listed their titles (retranslated from the Japanese) as The Zoological Garden within the Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Furrowed Brow | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

The preaching of hell, said His Holiness, "is more than ever urgent today." The duty of the church, "before God and men, is to teach it ... as Christ revealed it . . . Desire for heaven is a more perfect motive than fear of eternal punishment, but from this it does not follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Power of Hell | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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