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Word: fancifulism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the judges well knew, they were indeed running counter to .popular passion. The third judge on the appeals court, Clifton Mathews, dissented tartly: "The danger here suggested is not a fanciful one. The ability of Bridges and his I.L.W.U. to paralyze Pacific Coast shipping has been demonstrated more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: In & Out | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

The community has an almost antiseptic air. Levittown streets, which have such fanciful names as Satellite, Horizon, Haymaker, are bare and flat as hospital corridors. Like a hospital, Levittown has rules all its own. Fences are not allowed (though here & there a homeowner has broken the rule). The plot of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Up from the Potato Fields | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Pressurized Prisoners. This fanciful tale was hardly in circulation when a bigger & better version caught up with it. The space ship's space men were not dead at all. Fifteen of them had been captured alive. They would not, or could not talk (as earthbound creatures know talking), but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Visitors from Venus | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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