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Word: fooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professors in three departments have defended J. Robert Oppenheimer in reaction to the protest of his appointment as William James Lecturer by Edwin Ginn '18 a Boston financier. One called Ginn "a fool...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: 3 Professors Stand Behind Oppenheimer | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...Ginn is a fool," said Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature. "It is obvious that he has not read the proceedings of Oppenheimer's hearing or understood anything that has happened," he added...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: 3 Professors Stand Behind Oppenheimer | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...accepted for the class of 1959, and almost all those who applied were good scholastically. The selection was based on the "past achievement and future promise of the individual." But in the final analysis he admits that "any man who tries to justify his selections today is a fool...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Admissions: What Kind of Wheat to Winnow | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...Write a thousand words a day for the next five years ... A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shavian Shavings | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Died. Lloyd Bacon, 65, Hollywood director of oldtime Mack Sennett two-reelers and of Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, the first major talkie (his latest: The French Line); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Burbank, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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