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Word: disheartenment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trend of the past half century is allowed to continue, a picture of the yard fifty years from now will dishearten these who feel a strong attachment to what remains of Harvard's once-gracious heart. Originally the site of undergraduate dormitories and class-buildings of Georgian structural style, this confine has been transformed by the recurring needs of the past 300 years into a vast architectural pudding, spiced with neat tid-bits such as Boylston and Weld. As the needs grew, the landscaping diminished, the charm receded to three small areas, one of which is to be used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squeeze Play | 5/11/1946 | See Source »

...feminine topics of ruffles and steatopygia, a slim, unruffled expert made sense last week. Said Mrs. Mary Brewster White, OWI's expert on womanpower, to 300 clothes-conscious fashion editors and designers: "If there must be pants ... let them be designed so that they do not dishearten 'she who doubles any measurement that Venus can offer.' . . . [As] for ruffles . . . they have no place in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unruffled | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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