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Word: girling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second, and perhaps less confusing sequence, is called "The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart." ("So normal and well-rounded, but she sends her dreams to the laundry.") It has lyrics by John LaTouche, music by Paul Bowles and features the voices of Libby Holman and Josh White on the sound track. The girl in the case is that familiar type of sexual idealist who later becomes a rampant realist...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: Dreams That Money Can Buy | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...Chinese merchant of Augusta, Ga., named his 18th child (a girl) Dixie Thurmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...high plans for this cream of the educational crop. But at the same time "the weight of the school should be thrown heavily against all forms of snobbery," and in favor of the equal dignity of protozoologists, shoe salesmen and senators. Only then will "a boy or girl [choose] a career . . . because of a real interest, not in order to climb into a better economic or social group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walk a Little Faster | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...parents had hoped for a girl, planned to call her Clara. -Every psychiatrist must be an M.D., take years of psychiatric training (which often include a personal psychoanalysis) and pass special examinations before being considered a "specialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are You Always Worrying? | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Wool does not come into market the peasant does not eat his own grain the girl's needle goes blunt in her hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Same Old Ez | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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