Word: pense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Strenuous Life. Despite the low rates, dime novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia...
Too much of this sort of homespun philosophy-and an attack on Walt Whitman as a dirty-minded fellow-makes it pretty clear that Philosopher Lin Yutang is not the best man to evaluate the wisdom of America. Along with his own running commentary, he has gotten together a narcotic...
After the rats had been trained to ignore light and noise, they were put in pens built to resemble such favorite rat hangouts as kitchens or corncribs. There, in front of the cameras, they performed their normal dramas of robbery, love and cannibalism. Rat mothers suckled their young, and sometimes...
The fast-exit type seems to have learned his exit on the vaudeville stage. He often manages to thrust his notes into his briefcase and back toward the door while still continuing an uninterrupted flow of closing phrases. Some teachers have been known to master this exit so effectively that...
Two things had long annoyed Harry Truman about his weekly press conferences. One was that, with as many as 250 reporters jammed into his office, it was sometimes hard for him to tell whether a New York Times or Daily Worker man was asking a question, and the President thought...