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Word: indebtedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having just completed a trying reading of the commentary accompanying the pictures in this year's Radcliffe Freshman Register we cannot help but choke back a feeling of disgust. Undoubtedly sundry Square merchants are deeply indebted, in view of the subtle plugs for their respective products. We will even venture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POX ON THE HUCKSTERS | 10/7/1953 | See Source »

Many of the best brains of the last two centuries have felt indebted to the knowledge-lined old institution in London where the British have assembled what is probably the world's most comprehensive collection of information. There Gibbon and Macaulay did their historical research, Boswell perfected the technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knick Knackatory | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

The 22% who think he does more good than harm are indebted to McCarthy for helping them to keep up with the news. The evidence of Communist influence (95% of which was drawn out by investigators other than McCarthy) was not very difficult to understand. But apparently millions did not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McCARTHYISM: MYTH & MENACE | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

De Gasperi threw them out (1947) in one of the boldest, most important decisions of the cold war. A few months later he met them over the ballot boxes-an enemy more ruthless, more disciplined, better organized than his own wobbly coalition. While many Italians with faint hearts and fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man from the Mountains | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Colombia's campaign is part of a drive launched in 77 countries by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (in other lands the fight is against a variety of diseases from yaws to kwashiorkor). It is a prime example of a technically backward country's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lifesaving Stings | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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