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Word: diversionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equally important is the duration of love since even love of the highest intensity may last for only a moment. Among the lowest degrees of this diversion is love which lasts, for example, only on weekends and is forgotten during the remainder of the week.

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Altruism Center Probes Five-Dimensional Love In Studies of Saints, Nurses, Radcliffe Girls | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

Since he came to the United States from Poland in 1903, these studies and others, have almost completely absorbed Wolfson's energies; his private life has assumed something of that peripheral unimportance a dedicated man allows to things beyond his primary interests. Outside of Widener and his study, his interests...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The Search for Baruch | 5/24/1955 | See Source »

Offseason Diversion. For all its violence, lacrosse has had a persistent appeal. Maryland tourists brought it home to Baltimore in the 1880s, and with evangelical fervor made their city the lacrosse capital of the nation. For years, the rosters of All-America teams have read like pages from the Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mayhem on the Lawn | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Today in the U.S. lacrosse is a familiar sport from Florida to New England and west to the campus of Ohio State. It is only natural that it is a popular offseason diversion for football players who like to keep in shape. At Maryland, Muscleman Frank Tamburello, one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mayhem on the Lawn | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Warm in the April sunshine, London's upper-crust horseplayers crowded the club enclosure at Kempton Park Race Track. Peeresses in Dior tweeds appraised each other when they were done appraising the ponies. Their husbands, in Saville Row suits, lifted black bowlers when they passed near their Queen. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coexistence on the Turf | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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