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Word: far (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...this point, things have gone so far that we have at most one last jump into the future. And that is to revive certain elements of the Japanese army-which, under U.S. direction, can stop the Red tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...willing to bet practically anything that TIME will elect either Roosevelt or Churchill as Man of the Half-Century. Yet surely the scientific discoveries of Albert Einstein have had a much more far-reaching effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...British university standards, many "could not... either read or write...Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect, and to discriminate... they read rapidly, desperately, and far too much ... and the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer for the rest of their lives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berlin, Ex-Harvard Lecturer, Cites Faults of Universities | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...good performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in that the performers enjoy themselves. The Canterbury players who gave "Patience" at the Christ Church Parish House last night, and who will repeat tonight, had a better time by far acting than the audience had listening. The result was a great show...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

George Tobias and Lenore Lonergan play the comedy leads. Tobins tells ancient jokes, postures, grimaces-but fails to entertain. Miss Lonergan, by far the superior performer, is sometimes able to make the audience believe that what it sees and hears is clever; but when she leaves the stage, apathy takes her place. Jack Cole and his troupe of dancers are occasionally interesting; more often they merely wiggle their hands and chase one another in circles...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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