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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Any football team which can absorb three dreadful losses--during which it scored 12 points to its opponent's 110--and then come up with an upset victory, must have more than praise-worthy spirit and courage. The 1951 Harvard squad, which had an abundance of both, probably did more...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/29/1951 | See Source »

His recent works are as short of smiles as ever, but they are also short of things to weep about. As one of his friends puts it, Shahn at 53 may still have one foot in Union Square, but the other is firmly planted in the abstractionists' circle. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Baffling Ben | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

"I remember how stricken we were when 47 Jews were killed in a pogrom in the Ukraine. We had days of mourning and fasting. But six million! That dreadful calamity-and the whole spiritual and material crisis of our time-are bringing American Jews back to the faith of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Thus in Manhattan, and in almost every other corner of the world, one day this week, as they have for thousands of years, Jews prayed to the God of their fathers. It was the most dreadful and solemn day of the solemn and dreadful Jewish Year-Yom Kippur, the Day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

What should a new-style, progressive Chinese wife do when her husband turns out to be a dreadful reactionary? Mrs. Ling Hua-tang knew: call the cops and let them take care of him as they will. Last week, proud of herself, Mrs. Ling wrote a letter to Canton'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: New-Style Wife | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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