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Word: joys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...True," returned one of the senses which had stopped gamboling just long enough to catch the last word of the sentence. "But History 1 University Hall and relations dear sir not to be severed is too much for me." At this point the chair hopped conclusively, indicating its joy at the relations not to be severed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/11/1942 | See Source »

...play of that name is being produced in a tiny theatre holding at most a hundred people, by a tiny company of hardworking semi-pros, might arouse at most a little sympathetic interest--not enough, however, for a trip into town to look for that theatre at 36 Joy Street (off Beacon Street a block west of the State House.) Only, therefore, the probable truth that "The Old Ladies" is the most gripping play that has appeared on a Boston stage this season can be reasonably considered just cause for an excursion...

Author: By H. W. M., | Title: PLAYGOER | 2/10/1942 | See Source »

...mother of one of your Harvard Freshmen, may I congratulate you on the editorial in the "Harvard Crimson" as of Monday, February 2nd. Those are fine ideals to shoot at and it is a pleasure and joy and an encouragement to know that the young people in the colleges evidently see pretty clearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/10/1942 | See Source »

...Dudley Joy Morton makes his patients walk barefooted across a black box lined with mirrors. A light fixture is rigged in the box so that pressure of the patient's feet on the soft top of the box makes bright spots on the image in the mirror; from the spots, which record the distribution of pressure, he can diagnose their foot ills. To doctors meeting last week at the Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in Atlantic City, Dr. Morton, professor of anatomy at Columbia, demonstrated his black box, explained what he had found out by studying the human foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mirrored Feet | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...sons wandered, but always secretly to return, sophisticated in the ways of killing. The eldest son set deep traps and coolly killed his victims with his knife. The second smuggled in firearms from the hill-men, and killed only when he had to. The youngest killed for pure joy and found joy in nothing else. Ling Tan too, who had once been unable to see a chicken die, killed without feeling. His daughter-in-law, Jade, managed, by poisoning some ducks, to kill off Japanese banqueters in the city. At Ling Tan's signal, slouching and timid crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Ballet | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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