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Word: oure (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Also, he's such a great stylist--those wonderful phrases which people are always quoting in dissertations. `This decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Biographer and Critic | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

Although it opposed the loyalty provision on the grounds that it is ineffective and "insults students as a group," the Council stated that "it is clear that our moral decisions must be influenced by consideration of the practical problems."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduates Encourage Individual Choices On NDEA Funds | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

The reason for U.S. intransigence to an eastern bloc country lies in the necessity for a majority of seven members of the council to pass an emergency issue on to the General Assembly in case of a Soviet veto. Apparently Washington feels that when such an issue arises it will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Security Council Seat | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

One of America's pet hobbies is "pledging." The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much abused one. The pledge-making mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and Sunday School but has found its way...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seeing Red | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

(So now you'll go to your party. You'll play another round of literary hopscotch--"I read Jude the Obscure last summer." "Oh, did you? I just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Stab the Paper Dragon | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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