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Word: disant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space, Dr. Wilcox sugests a stream of homey news from earth, and televised views of moms and sweethearts. Where such therapy does not sufice, he believes that a therapist should keep in communication with the crew by microphone and loudspeaker. Ever-present and all-hearing, he will watch from disant earth for the first warning signs of a psychological storm-to-come. By the technique of group therapy he can smooth ruffled feelings and try to keep peace on the spaceship all the way to Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tranquilized in Space | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which is a farce and no game for a gentleman. The compulsory Physical Training program, besides violating the soi disant "freedom of a great university," is an unjustifiable expense. Biddies are a luxury most of us would be sorry to see removed, but if a higher education is to be indirectly refused capable students through the expense of this admirable old institution, they, too, should go. Felix Cayo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save What's Left | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

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