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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phillippe E. Le Corbeiller, professor of General Education, said, "This question of fitting to style is a joke. Lamont has blended perfectly. In fact, one of the best things about Harvard is its variety Each age has its own style. This is ours, and we should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Reply to Alumni Blasts At New Modernistic G.E. Building | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

...release about the seminar. After writing one paragraph, he decided to postpone the release date and for the amusement of Fischells, added two paragraphs containing bogus material. Fischells read the material without comment. It was not made clear to the CRIMSON reporter, Sapers agreed that the statement was a joke; he did not, understand that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sapers Clears Up False Information In Seminar Story | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...United Nations: "In my book, the U.N. is a joke, anyway; they might as well fold up . . . They don't want Spain, or Portugal. No, but they want Russia...

Author: By Daniel Eilsberg, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 4/10/1951 | See Source »

Magsaysay first started getting results during the Japanese occupation, when he organized a guerrilla force of 12,000 strong, in the mountains where he was born. Says he: "It was no joke, living in those jungles. I had to take care of myself, not only against the Japs but against my own men. For a few Japanese pesos, any one of them could "have killed me. But I treated them like men, and shared everything I had with them. As a result, they treated me like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Hope Against the Huks | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...first police treated the matter as a joke, but as excitement grew in the city, they went into action, arrested teen-agers distributing leaflets, tore down posters (which promptly went up again as soon as the cops' backs were turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Spirit of Barcelona | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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