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Word: liven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dances at Davis or Scott liven up Saturday evenings, and such variety performances as the Rally Day show, take care of other nights. This year's show, "Quelques Chose", featured Charles Addams, Yale (though they liked the Harvardman's gift of the "Fruit of the month"), and a song whimsically entitled "No Sex After...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smithites Seek Males, Fine Food on Weekend | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

...Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Critic of Rule & Rote | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...wants to make noise in sedate Switzerland, he is expected to go off to a mountain and yodel. Last year the U.S.'s Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. decided to liven things up: it introduced the jukebox to Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Jukebox Invasion | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...greatest disappointment of the issue is its cartoons. Frederick Gwynne, who can usually be counted upon to liven things up, has fallen short. His one Charles Adams-type contribution fails to put across a rather clever idea, an unusual failing for Gwynne. The others are equally poor...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

Barmairds, flappers and punch brewed in a bathtub will liven the scene at the Radcliffe '51-'52 Halfway Hop in Agassiz at 8.30 p.m. tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briefs of the Day's News | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

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