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Word: mires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was big talk in a city where voters are registered nearly three to one Republican. Said the Inquirer: "It was not a matter of being a Republican or a Democrat; it was a matter of trying to redeem the city from those who had sunk it in the mire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: From the Mire | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Gazette called on true-red Soviet physicists to "rescue the quantum theory from the mire into which physicists and idealists of all shades and colors have driven it." The "latest gigantic achievements of physics in the domain of liberating atomic energy and the study of cosmic rays," trumpeted the Gazette, "have been made not because of, but in spite of current theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watch Your Quantum Theory | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/5/1947 | See Source »

...thousand rain-drenched spectators stood in the muck and mire to watch this latter encounter, as they saw quarterback Jim Kenary, this fall a potential cog in the Varsity machine, break loose for scoring runs of 65 and 85 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Football Practice To Start Monday Afternoon | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...President's daughter also met the press. Her omnipresent teacher, Mrs. Margaret Strickler, a bosomy, flop-hatted kind of Madame Svengali, was hovering near by. When reporters asked Margaret about one selection on her program, La Fauvette avec ses Petits from Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Mrs. Strickler muscled in: "Galli-Curci was the only other one I've heard sing it. I might say that her voice was very similar, too." Margaret laughed it off: "That will be enough of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Judgment Day | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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