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Word: mentioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rioters" contented themselves with waving placards and gentle shouts of "fascists" and "dogs." When one youth climbed aboard a passing truck and began to distribute its cargo of bricks among the demonstrators, a policeman intervened, insisted that every brick be returned. The Moscow papers, after all, had made no mention of any broken windows in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Road to Serfdom | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...only tell you this: if you spot Harold on the street (you can tell him by the flies) pause to flip him a dime. You're buying posterity's culture cutrate, not to mention tomorrow morning's toast

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Down 'n' Out in Cambridge: The Soybean Cult | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...other roles are well handled, and I should like to mention at least Dee Victor (Lady Sneer-well), Olive Dunbar (Lady Candour), Frederic Warriner (Sir Benjamin Backbite), Stanley Jay (Old Rowley), and Robert Evans (Charles Surface). The only jarring notes are contributed by Thomas Hill (Sir Oliver Surface), who, fine as he is in the more realistic modern repertory, cannot attune his diction to the period style required here...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Shakespeare, Sheridan Shows Start Summer Stage Season | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...your excellent article you failed to mention the fact that the U.S.S.R. is utilizing its best female as well as male brains, and is unique in its representation of the feminine gender in scientific pursuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Such improvements are not long-range hypothesizing, nor mere suggestions in a tolerable situation. Each is an urgent requirement if our society is best to serve itself and its members, not to mention maintaining or improving its status in the Cold War. If administrators and school officials fail to act in meeting what may be properly termed a crisis--for more than the gifted child--then it is up to parents and citizens of the community to fill in. The nation's press has recorded events in Lakewood, Ohio, where parents launched after-hours special classes in language and science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gifted Child: Tragedy of U.S. Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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