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Word: enjoyable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rococo main studio in Manhattan, Arthur Murray, 63, and Kathryn Murray, 52, last week exhibited a new application form for membership in the International Arthur Murray Lifetime Club. Keyed to worldwide expansion of studios, the application is designed to reduce the risk of suits. It asks students if they "enjoy exchange lessons," i.e., dancing with other than their regular instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: On (and On) with the Dance | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...there is, after all, the wife of the "ugly American," a lady readers will enjoy meeting. Looking over the situation in Sarkhan, she decides that the people's backs are bent because they use short brooms. Hustling into action, she discovers a 5-ft. reed instead of a 2-ft. reed to be used for broom handles, a technological revolution for which the villagers reward her with a small shrine bearing the inscription. "In memory of the woman who unbent the backs of our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Man's Burden | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Even the adepts of the Bogart cult had best stay away from this one, for they will not enjoy seeing Bogie in so dismal an undertaking. The fault, to be sure, is not his; he is in good form, and gets in some good gunplay, first-rate pistol-whipping, and concludes with a chase in the grand manner through the California mountains...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: High Sierra | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

This will mark the beginning of Harvard's campaign to move up from last year's lowly seventh position in the Ivy League, and if it is to enjoy any success in this endeavor a victory today must be considered mandatory. If the varsity loses to Cornell, the psychological disadvantage, especially if it bows to a very strong Leheigh eleven next week, will be tremendous as it faces the heart of the 1958 schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity Begins Ivy League Campaign Against Strong, Deep Cornell Team at Ithaca | 10/4/1958 | See Source »

...matter what anyone tells you, Harvard has lots of money. If you want some, all you have to do is to ask the Administration--preferably a Dean, because Deans enjoy helping students. Besides, it's much more fun to give money to deserving student organizations than to see Houses, theaters, and another drab buildings completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Everybody Happy? | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

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