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Word: m (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirty-nine minutes, he concentrated perfectly. "Gradually," he decided, "I'm developing study habits. In fact, after this exam period, I'll probably spend twelve hours each day reading." Vag spent twenty minutes thinking of all the books he wanted to read, than twenty more trying to remember their authors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And So It Goes | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

...wrong calls--mistakes, of course,, were terrible," complained the Yale coach, who usually keeps his burns and bruises to himself. "The sanctity football officials are housed in is wrong," Olivar told sports writers. "If I make a mistake, I'm blasted. If the kids make any, they're blasted, but officials apparently mustn't be blasted...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Olivar Raps Referees' Decisions | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

District Judge M. Edward Viola yesterday ruled there was reasonable grounds to conclude that a violation of election laws had taken place. He ordered the inquest and placed the original complaint--by a shut-in woman--into the public records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Upholds Councillor's Inquest, Rules Violation of Voting Procedure | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard CRIMSON of Saturday, October 31, there appeared a piece entitled, "The Vagabond: The From of Travel," describing a certain young man's efforts to obtain a scholarship grant to several foreign universities. We are of the opinion that this poor student's French section man, M. Plombier, was not the ame sympathique" as thought, but has thoroughly ruined the student's chances of receiving a grant from the French government by grossly misquoting the opening lines of Paul Verlaine's poem, "II Pleure Dans Mon Coeur." They should read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN(E?) CORRECTION | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

...Return of H*Y*M*K*A*N*K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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