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Word: haling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the birth of Christ, he missed from one to seven years. So the year 1900 may have been really 1901 or 1907.) In pedantic Boston, the 1901 view prevailed. On Jan. 1, 1901 throngs gathered on the Common to hear a moral discourse by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, author of the patriotic tear-squeezer The Man Without a Country. In those days the fate of Kale's pathetic character, Philip Nolan, was regarded as uniquely dreadful. The wars, revolutions and immigration restrictions of the next 50 years were to create hundreds of thousands of men & women without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: The View from 1900 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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