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...Lytton Strachey . . . looked like a caricature of Christ; a limp cadaverous creature, moving feebly, with lank long brown hair and the beginnings of a beard much paler in color, and spasmodic treble murmurs of a voice utterly weary and contemptuous. Obscene was the character written all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Philosopher's Quest | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

There's the Rub. In Arlington, Va., Summerfield McCarteney, 60, told police that a woman had stopped him to ask directions to Falls Church, offered to cure his limp by massaging his back, taken $265 from his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Last week a plane from Cuba took Captain Rodriguez, now a limp and broken man, to Madrid to face charges of grand larceny and high treason, which carries the maximum penalty of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: All for Africa | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...University will cut expenses. Each professor suspects that his program may vanish, and may students wonder which departments of the school will continue functioning. While the University delays taking any action, a good part of the school lies dormant. No one can start research projects. The libraries must limp along on inadequate budgets, and worn out equipment is not replaced. It is a poor atmosphere for academic development...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Design --- A School Without Direction | 12/11/1952 | See Source »

...probably the largest in publishing history (more than 1,000 titles), and 2) as a whole it comes close to proving that junior is just as well off curled up with a good TV set. There have been shovelfuls of forgettable stories about small, cuddly animals, limp sagas of family life and boneless biographies of the great and neargreat-most of them full of worthy but somewhat dull lessons, such as brush teeth regularly, don't gobble goodies when visiting, and don't talk back to mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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