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Word: hands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Aiken, on the other hand, has expressed opposition to the scientific Utopianism proposed by Skinner. According to Aiken, Skinner's view ". . . leads to the most desperate, grimmest sort of police state imaginable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANSS Presents Aiken, Skinner on 'Utopias' Tonight | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Knowing the Enemy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

There were no skyrocket bursts of great, fresh genius, and among the novelists many an old hand had shown a faltering touch. But 1949's books, fiction and nonfiction, accurately and often brilliantly reflected the state of man and his world. They were books colored by personal questioning, confusion and discontent; but also showing through was a determination to express both personal and public dilemmas and to face them firmly. More than in recent years, fiction in 1949 leavened its cynicism with compassion. In a great deal of nonfiction, skepticism was tempered with American optimism: though happiness and order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...residents will be gratified. A manually operated, "one-arm-bandit" type of orange-juice squeezer will be placed in the Lowell Dining Hall today for breakfasters who find it messy, inconvenient, and irksome to squeeze halved oranges by hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inner Life Served By Lowell Squeezer | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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