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Word: outlands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner was not Silent Mirth as you would expect because it happens to Donald O'Connor in the best movies. No, a 12-1 beast, well-named "Outland," pulled ahead in the stretch and finished strong. Casey was awfully sorry about Mike's mistake, and because she had talked me into another wasted two-bill...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Improving the Bookies | 4/25/1953 | See Source »

...effect on the pious, closefisted French Canadian farm folk of Monk's Inlet, the Stranger is really only a literary device. Canadian Author Germaine Guevremont has used him and his outland ways simply to point up the careful, ordered provincial life of a countryside she describes with affectionate fidelity. The Outlander is a completely unpretentious novel of place, almost entirely without plot, and only incidentally concerned with human characters. Nature broods omnisciently over the story, making even birth and death seem but fragments in a larger design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Canadian Pastoral | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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