Word: ditherings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East 79th Street, and is rated by experts as the most comprehensive of its kind in the U.S. Without children, 58-year-old, redheaded Chester Dale will probably leave his masterpieces to some big U.S. museum. The question of which one has got hungry U.S. museum directors into a dither...
Whether or not Yale should offer athletic scholarships has all New Haven in a dither, according to a poll recently conducted by the Yale Daily News. Over two-thirds of the New Haven townspeople are in favor of the move...
When Lapointe in an answering speech said that she kept "very bad company," implied that she was a Communist fellow traveler, Mrs. Nielsen rose on a point of privilege, made a speech that threw the House into a howling dither...
...devise a complete electrical control system on a luncheon napkin. Like Henry J. Kaiser in a different field he belongs to that completely individual type of miracle man that flourishes chiefly in the U. S. For years he has had the radio and aircraft industries in a mixed dither of admiration, envy and dislike...
...sample. Then they began to talk with him about other things (with the tube through his nostril he could talk well enough)-unpleasant things, things that made him resentful, anxious, angry, frustrated. They continued their calculated tactlessness till his voice and manner showed that he was in a good dither. Then they took another stomach sample. The experience was painful but it served the cause of science...