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Word: hastens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Questionnaires, as any social relations man will hasten to say, tend to eliminate the subtleties of the issue involved. In order to give such subtleties some play the poll asked the legislators to comment on the problems brought up in the questions...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Poll Shows General Court's Views on Harvard | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

Praised by these, blamed by those-mocking fools, heckling the opposition I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fools & Opposition | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...University's official greeters, who usually hasten to welcome important guests to the Yard, were not on hand to greet this one. In fact, authorities at Fogg Art Museum refused to have anything to do with the white marble bust of Charles Tallman, 15th century Syracuse, New York, utilities magnate, even though it is valued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statue from Syracuse Receives Snub Here | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...other college, enjoying a pleasant green among a group of pleasant buildings, would leave it that way. We hasten to ruin it with a coca-cola bottling plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coca-Cola Bottling Plant | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

This morning at Mass I saw a pink donkey with green ears, standing on its head. I hasten to add that it was on one of those lively scarves worn by young ladies. In other moments of distraction I have observed . . . Mahjong players, Hawaiian dancing girls, Sheiks and camels, not to mention film stars and dogs. I would suggest that the Spanish mantilla might be more seemly and beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No More Donkeys | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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