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Word: meannesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does Petelka actually mean "democratic" and "simple" are identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa') Mead, Associate Curator of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, admitted that guilt feelings were floating around the U.S.-especially among certain groups ("Liberals have always more guilt than anyone else"). However, Dr. Mead thought guilt could be healthy-"I mean the kind of guilt which makes people pay their taxes, not throw banana peels into the street, which makes people feel responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: How Not to Throw Banana Peels | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...being sucked dry by the one-way trade treaties with Russia, might have been told eloquently and in detail that a Red-dominated Danube meant more poverty for them. They could also have been told convincingly that the U.S. wanted a Danube open to all nations which would mean more trade and fewer restrictions for the Danube nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Cook & the Potatoes | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...shoulder and said, 'Where do you think you are -in your bedroom?' There, leaning over us, was an ugly, sweating flatfoot with a big mustache. 'Beat it,' he said, 'and take off that scandalous bathing suit or else-' 'What do you mean?' I asked gently. Then he said there's a new order prohibiting indecent bathing suits and that I was a shameless girl. Why that dirty flatfoot wasn't even a Roman. My Mario says it's all the fault of that rowdy Christian Democrat Scelba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: For Shame! | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Next day Bob agreed, thought he would retire from decathlon competition, the undefeated champion. That didn't mean he was through with athletics: it was in his blood. In his senior year of high school this year, he was captain and fullback of Tulare's championship football team, a basketball letterman, captain of the track team (California scholastic champion in the high & low hurdles). He hasn't decided where to go to college, but leans to Stanford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Boy | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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