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Word: naturedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wildfire is the result of something that should not have happened between a champion bull terrier and a certain lowborn bitch who made her living on the streets, and the picture tells how his worth overcame his birth. Put to the pits by a greedy master (Jeff Richards), Wildfire fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

"At every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dissent at Table 40 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Ingredients of the Old School Rivalry, although little more than intermural nose-pulling, have always been the high jinks among Ivy League newspapers. With unrhythmic regularity the dailies have ground out odd-man assortments of parodies and away-from-home editions. We have exchanged good-natured tweaks with Princeton, for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Daily News | 11/19/1955 | See Source »

After a good natured warning about a wrist hold ("Don't get carried away now; but if you ever have to use it, give a good jerk and pop, it breaks."), an instructor demonstrated the evening's final highlight, the Boston Crab. The heels eventually join the head with obvious...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Nishimoto Style | 11/2/1955 | See Source »

No Time for Sergeants (adapted by Ira Levin from the novel by Mac Hyman) offers a really good evening of simple-minded fun. Less a play than an episodic romp, it tells of Will Stockdale, an incorrigibly good-natured young hillbilly who is inducted into the U.S. Air Force. Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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