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Word: happiered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Before his departure for England, the Archbishop had a few words to say about TV. "The world," he noted, "would have been a happier place if television had never been discovered . . . Television is part of the uneasiness of life ... a mass-produced form of education which is potentially one of the greatest dangers in the world." He admitted, however, that Mrs. Fisher has become a baseball fan by watching ball games on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women in the Church | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Mason tried again & again, cutting his hypnosis time to three seconds. After he said the right arm would clear, it did. The boy's thighs and legs, which had been most heavily covered, cleared partially. His back was 90% cleared. The boy, now 18 and happier than he had ever expected to be, has learned to hypnotize himself to maintain the improvement. He is working as an electrician's helper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Entranced Skin | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...penniless producers, starving actors, shrewd sharpers and keen-witted kibitzers who rollick through the book. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts of Dickens: a director with three wives, a sentimental actress always in search of a husband, and harmless scoundrels who are never happier than when plotting to steal each other's prima donnas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost World | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...said it would buy a 280-acre estate in Westchester County, 20 miles from the big city, provided that zoning laws are changed to permit Carbide to construct office buildings costing $12,500,000 for its 2,500 head-office employees. The company thought that its workers would be happier in the Westchester hills than in "the canyons of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Out of the Canyon | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...charwoman to testify, bore no grudge. Her work-reddened hands hidden in the folds of a rich, black silk dress, the one remnant of her marquesal wardrobe, she told the court: "Of course, he lied. But it could have been true . . . And for 15 days I was happier than I've ever dreamed of being. I am grateful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Poet's Sentence | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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