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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish grandee of such exalted lineage that he was entitled to keep his hat on while chatting with his king. Making himself Bolivian minister to France (to avoid the nuisance of paying French taxes), old Simón handsomely built his own legation-plus palaces in Biarritz and Nice-and three Bolivian mansions, costing $30 million, two of which he never even saw before his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Republic up in the Air | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...STRANGER joining the Kinseys and staff on one of their picnics would never suspect that these nice, comfortable faculty folks were engaged in studies any more stimulating than the use of the comma in Chaucer. Visitors are exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

When the young have been banished, and Melvyn Douglas, Polly Rowles and Philip Loeb perform as the husband, the wife and the bank president, the play takes on a nice aimless, bantering good humor. But things are a bit askew when a plot must go out for a walk before the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 8, 1952 | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...Krinsky, Bob Gremp, and Ed Condon, last year's starters, this year's substitutes, played well when they got in. Krinsky hawked the ball on defense, and set up three nice scoring plays, Gremp battled for the ball, and scored six points, and Condon scored three baskets...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Thank you for the many kind things said about the Harvard Maids. If is nice to note the change in the relationship between the Harvard Students and their Maids. We have long been the victims are serving you in order to help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUST A THANK YOU | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

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