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Word: likes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like asking which leg is more important, the right or the left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dialogue With John Dewey | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...could not compare them. It is like asking a father which of his children he likes best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dialogue With John Dewey | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...thick of the dance floor. At most mixers he had had fun overhearing conversations or talking with the boys in Ruby Newman's Band, but tonight was to be different. Dudley tapped the shoulder of a fellow who was dancing with a rather attractive girl, the type you like to dance with but still you don't get cut in on right away. The dancing came rather naturally, in fact it was fun, but Dudley could not think of anything to say. He forgot everything he had planned...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Punch on the Rocks | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...Dudley....D-U-D-L-E-Y," he answered, "Like the House...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Punch on the Rocks | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

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