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Word: hybrids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a smutty little horror called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings" ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons there."). Doretta Morrow is piquant as Kismet's sole ingenue, particularly in "Stranger in Paradise," the most successful hybrid of Borodin and Tin Pan Alley...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Kismet | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

Female Don Juan. Maurois' title, Lélia, is taken from the partly autobiographical novel of that name that George Sand wrote in 1833 when she was 29. By then, she was already a popular author, a doting mother of two children and an emancipated hybrid who wore trousers and smoked cigars. But, above all, she was a woman who sought sexual satisfaction as vainly and desperately as her male counterpart, Don Juan. "When I was with [my lover]," the Sandian heroine Lélia confesses, "I was seized with a strange, delirious hunger which no embrace could satisfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emancipated Woman | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Physical Sciences, the hybrid field which lets its concentrators dabble in the fields of chemistry, physics, and mathematics is designed for two types of students. The first is the person who has a sincere interest in either physics or chemistry, but lacks the ability to puzzle out the complex mathematical formulas of physics, or the patience to spend his spring afternoons sweating over a steam bath in the chem lab. The second type is the student who wants to get a diversified scientific education in preparation for a career in industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History & Literature to Social Relations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

...lick 'cm, join 'cm" was Truman's method. He guarded himself by inviting reporters, Cabinet members, and friends to swim with him. His selection of shirts also helped him show that he was just any other hard worked executive on a needed vacation. With those hybrid Hawaiian Crosby choices, he eclipsed everything except his lined but happy face...

Author: By E.h. Harvey, | Title: Presidents at Play | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...order to contrast with Shakespearean production techniques, O'Neil and director Ian Cadenhead '53 travelled 2000 miles to scout presentations of "Othello" in Cleveland and Princeton. The Dramatic Club production of the play, O'Neil said, will be a "hybrid" of the Princeton and Cleveland versions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC to Attempt Othello Revision Before Staging | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

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