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Word: motes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came of the college in 1950 under a Carneige grant to study education of Princeton. As head of an Advisee Project for the Class of 1954 he analyzed the social and academic lives of 36 students through their four undergraduate years. When he left last June, he probably know mote undergraduates on a personal basis than any other member of the faculty. And in turn more students called him their best faculty friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Psychologist S. Roy Heath Studied Undergraduates, Left Mysteriously | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

Most favored of all was the soulful thought that the best way to meet the Soviet challenge was to reform ourselves at home-had we a right to point the finger at anybody else's broadest beam, so long as there was the slightest mote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

King James: "Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionary's English | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: $6.60 Comedian | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...John Mote Stevenson '52 of Glendale, Ohio, and Lowell House was yesterday elected captain of the varsity basketball team for the 1951-52 season. He succeeds Edward Bernard Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Elects Stevenson To Captain '51-'52 Varsity | 3/15/1951 | See Source »

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