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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

In its shortest meeting within the memory of this correspondent, the City Council did nothing of interest to The Harvard Community yesterday.

Author: By The CITY Editor, | Title: City Councillors Do Nothing of Interest | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

The Massachusetts Commission to Study and Investigate Communism began in 1953. Lately, it has been doing next to nothing, and the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is asking that it be discontinued, since it is unnecessary, "of dubious legality," and expensive to maintain.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Tape | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

The school district of Aldine, Texas, on the outskirts of Houston, is a spectacular example of money over mind. Two years ago, the Aldine taxpayers' association got full control of the seven-man school board, and nothing but penny-pinching grief has resulted since. The Aldine district (pop. 45...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Money Over Mind | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Full Conscience. It is not that simple, suggested Catholic Layman William Gorman. In his view, there is a good case for an "adjustment" in aid if nothing else. Gorman's reasoning is that parents in a free society have a prior right in the education of children, who are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parochial Puzzle | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

What is necessary is that the minor sports receive minor subsidies. To continue the present "all or nothing" system means that only people with money are perfectly free to select their sport. This is fair neither to the undergraduate nor to the many alumni who have recently given several millions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Subsidies and Rugby | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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