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Word: morasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Below the top level the acting falls into the morass of undisciplined and inconsistent characterizations typical of American Shakespeare companies, which do not have the acting tradition and standards which hold British productions together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/15/1948 | See Source »

Borgatti declared that Watson had, in the last week vetoed a request for University financial backing for the Band, involved petitions for rehearsal space in a morass of red tape, and hamstrung the Band's proposed South American trip this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Manager Attacks Three Watson Rulings | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...past few weeks, a small but ever-expanding group of Dunster residents has been stirring up the morass of inactivity that has characterized the House system in recent years. Terming itself an "Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee," the Dunster organization is providing a basis for House clubs devoted to anything from rhumba to chess. The Committee acts as a headquarters for men who have these special interests, and engages others to act as informal instructors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Self-Start | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

...Persia was the same old political and economic morass-easy picking for Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Battlefields of Peace | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...weighed nearly three pounds, its 804 pages were a dreary morass of technical jargon and statistical charts, it cost $6.50. But last week the U.S. was taking to Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as "the Kinsey report" (TIME, Jan. 5), the way it had once taken to the Charleston, the yo-yo and the forcing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: How to Stop Gin Rummy | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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