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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Animals are nice, dogs especially nice. Ask anyone they'll tell you the dog is nicest of all. Man's best friend in fact, or so they say. We think dogs are nice, too, nice in the home, before the roaring mid-December hearth, playing with the children. But dogs snarling at depositors in the Cambridge Trust are hard to take, and St. Bernards who challenge the road-rights of Massachusetts Avenue automobiles and pedestrians hardly help solve the problem of traffic in the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crass Menagerie | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...Cats are nice too, less popular perhaps than their canine friends, possibly colder, less affectionate, but nice all the same. Beautiful, too, so clean, soft, agile, so pleasant when they purr. Of course black cats are the object of no little disdain, but we like them too. Still, a Harvard House is scarcely their proper place, and House dining halls are far too frequently targets of feline invasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crass Menagerie | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...animals are nice, particularly nice for little kids, but they seem much nicer than they are. All nice things have their limits. Cambridge animals are taking too many liberties; Cambridge citizens are becoming second-class animals. This trend must stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crass Menagerie | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...colleague, Philip C. Olsson '61, later voiced the hope that, "It might be nice if we could finance the unshaven, struggling, brilliant guy around the corner...by reducing the capital gains...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Political Groups Debate Reduction Of Tax on Incomes Under $5,000 | 12/2/1958 | See Source »

...Nice to Baby. Hundreds of organizations, from the Girls' Service League to the United World Federalists, are staging parties every night because there is no easier way for a charity to make money. For $5,700 (and only 20% down), the Maternity Center Association bought up Marriage-Go-Round one night last week. It sold the tickets to members for $10 to $30, wound up with a profit of $16,000. Its major out-of-pocket cost: $210 for postage stamps. Why choose a broad sex comedy such as Marriage-Go-Round for the Maternity Center? Explains Director Hazel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Theater Parties | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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