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Word: matthew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bible, both Luke and Matthew are agreed that if the blind lead the blind, both will wind up in the ditch.† In The Fourth World, Novelist Daphne Athas does more than underwrite the common sense of the Gospels. She digs a fictional ditch big enough to hold both the sighted and the sightless, and the world into which she leads the reader would seem simply nightmarish if it did not also ring simply true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Insight into Blindness | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.-Matthew 15:14-Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?-Luke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Insight into Blindness | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Born. To Marilyn Maxwell, 34, blond cinemactress (Forever Darling), and Jerry Davis, 39, screenwriter: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Matthew Paul. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Half a dozen men locked arms, others seized hold. One by one, the exhausted men of Platoon 71 reached the mudbank. The last two half dragged to safety Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, who had worked himself to near-exhaustion trying to correct his dreadful mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death in Ribbon Creek | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Buntism derives from Sergeant Matthew Bunt, a British Marine who was two years a castaway on an uninhabited Pacific islet early in the igth century. When prim Captain Overton of H.M.S. Achilles stopped by, Marine Bunt, greeting him on the beach, showed some outer symptoms of extreme Buntism-"a paunch that hung over the belt of his tattered drawers, and cheeks which shook." But Captain Overton did not recognize the signs. "Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on. This promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fact and Fiction | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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