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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of any licensing system for sound trucks. While the Cambridge police are strict about parades they do not consider a 120 decibel juggernaut particularly worthy of supervision. Rather, they deem their verbal permission sufficient control of the trucks, adding only the afterthought that it would be nice to stay away from hospitals, schools and court-rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Captive Audience | 11/12/1953 | See Source »

...really too bad," commented Lynch, "It was a nice tradition while it lasted...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Secret Scroll, Too Big For Hiding-Place, Retired After Sixty-Seven Year History | 11/10/1953 | See Source »

...times gives way to sex, e.g., Jean takes the reader to the annual Interns' Ball, one of the most remarkable orgies allowed anywhere in the world. But as in U.S. novels about young doctors, Jean decides at the end that he wants to settle down with a nice girl and devote himself to curing the sick. Few readers will have to be told that French Author Andre Soubiran is the director of a pharmaceutical firm to realize how expert he is at dispensing bromides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: European Bestseller | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Moon Is Blue. Disapproved by the Legion of Decency and the U.S. Navy, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...question in his mind concern what men and what formations will be used for the remaining games on the schedule which Jordan called "three nice ones." The big problem is to find a replacement for quarterback Bob Hardy, who fractured his elbow on the second play of Davidson game and will be out for the rest of the season...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Jordan Faces Replacements, Possible Formation Changes | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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