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Word: drabbest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of art, the phenomenon is sad enough. The drabbest epitaph of all is that the show is generally an unrelieved bore. The psychological implications, however, are more unhappy still. This all helps a great deal to understand why an advanced people of intellectual attainment have been known to find themselves hysterically shrieking Sieg Heil! to an enraged psychotic with delusions of grandeur...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Two Modes | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

...explained by the fact that the approximately 5,000 fans entering the east side of the Stadium will be discussing the biggest game in 38 years, while the 10,000 odd heading for the west side will be mulling over what they fear will be one of the drabbest curtain-raisers in 81 seasons of Harvard football...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Favored Crimson Opens With UMass Today | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...kind of moneymaking operation that International Minerals and its bald, bouncing President Louis Ware specialize in. Ware, who learned the mining business from the shovel up, is a combination of scientist and hardheaded businessman, thinks researchers can ferret out untold new products hidden in the earth's drabbest minerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Treasure Hunters | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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