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Word: norness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nor did the Air Force argue that the B-36 was invulnerable ("We know," said General Vandenberg in the same speech, "that no plane or weapon of any kind can be completely invulnerable"). The Air Force, Vandenberg said, held only that the B-36 could get through in sufficient numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Revolt of the Admirals | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Undoubtedly the Cadets expect to win this one, too, so one of Harvard's greatest hopes is that Army will be overconfident. Unfortunately, overconfidence is not so good a runner as Jim Cain, nor so good a passer as Arnold Galiffa.

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Mr. Blaik Fields A Capable Team | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

A member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Progressives accompanied Chi and Roberts in their three-hour long conference with FEPC representatives. Neither Chi nor Roberts belong to HYP, which told the CRIMSON it would make no further move on the case until the FEPC has had a chance to act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEPC Considers Hazen Complaint | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

Now "welfare" has always been a nice sounding word suggestive of kindly old ladies with baskets on their arms--and "state" has remained more or less neutral. But as Humpty Dumpty scornfully said, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Lithe and Slimy" | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

The Way to Empire. Stalin deliberately cultivated the role of the featureless party functionary. He had no private vices; he loved neither money nor pleasure, neither drink nor women. His only vice was public: an insatiable lust for power. This he cultivated with a talent incomparable in modern history, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Servant into Master | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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