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Word: leste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that since New Jersey has no law specifically banning betting messages, it had no right as a common carrier to refuse the messages. But with W.U. facing a $1,000 fine and its branch manager a similar fine plus a jail sentence, W.U. ordered the ban on bet messages, lest it endanger other employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: All Bets Are Off | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...point is clear--that the "billion or more" people of the underdeveloped regions are increasingly susceptible to the misery that comes of knowing they could be better off, if only the right changes could be made. It is plain that we would do well to get them with us, lest they be organized against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asia Sees Only Luxuries of West | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

Truth or Consequences. The enormity of the record last week brought a weird squeak from Commissioner John B. Dunlap, new boss of the bureau. In a speech to the National Press Club, Dunlap warned investigators to lay off lest the public lose confidence in its tax collectors and stop paying taxes. The time has come, said he, "when all of us ... had better draw back and think of the consequences." When this statement brought some tart comments, Dunlap cried foul. He said that his speech should not have been quoted because it was made on an "off the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Senator's Crusade | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...calendar problem could, of course, be solved by the simple expedient of increasing the number of trial judges. But Open feels that nothing of this sort should be done, lest it tend to lower the quality of the judiciary. Rather a 29-month wait for true justice than a swift and slipshod treatment of individual rights and liberties, say the university savants. In any event, they point out, increased effort by the present number of solons will probably eliminate the court backlog within twenty or thirty years...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Open U. Uses Progressive Methods | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

...citizens of Cicero, Ill. beware lest the term "Ciceroism" come to stand as a symbol of hate, savagery, and racial prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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