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Word: meannesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory about the preferential ballot is that you vote for as many people as you want. Contrary to expectation, a fourth or even fifth or sixth vote may mean something in a close election, and there is no reason to think that today's elections won't be close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classes Select 7 Councilmen From 40 Candidates Today | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...however, they mean the latter, they should give up their society and join the Liberal Union he said

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger and Cherington Argue Merits of 'Fair Deal' | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

First, Rogge assumes that merely because certain "investigated" individuals are outstanding in their professions, they are of necessity loyal Americans. This does not mean that these people are not loyal Americans. But--in the case of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, for instance--it is an assumption which Rogge logically does not have to make to prove his point about House Committee improprieties...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

Should the Crimson have to operate without Ager in the singles it would mean each man would have to play up a notch, and against North Carolina such a situation would offer no pleasure...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Tennis Team Plays Strong Tarheels | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...weekly America, Leonard Feeney is an enthusiastic conversationalist who sometimes begins his sentences with a naive, unliterary "Gee!" The author of several volumes of poetry and essays, he confessed in his Fish on Friday: "I am given to superlatives. I overstate things . . . I say 'most' when I mean 'much.' Without the words 'tremendous,' 'wonderful,' 'amazing,' and 'astounding,' my vocabulary would collapse. I couldn't talk. I couldn't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Disobedience at St. Benedict's | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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