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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope that other upward reaching Mexican-Americans may feel a will and find a way to break through the undemocratic property restrictions which have long prevented them from buying comfortable homes on pleasant streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Conspirator Shiber had used the real name of the principal character. So all copies of that version of Paris-Underground were destroyed. In the present version, the principal character is called Kitty Beaurepos. She was the daughter of a London banker, kept a small dress shop, lived in a pleasant apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. When her husband died, Mrs. Shiber shared Kitty's apartment for three tranquil years. Then the Nazis overran France and the two women tried to flee by automobile. The Nazis overtook them, ordered them back to Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soldier Snafcher | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...tree it got stuck in was right in front of Widener, an affront in itself. The mob gathered and got a stepladder, too short, and then a sort of holding folding ladder, long enough. But puss loved life in the leaves and expectorating on Yard Cops, a pleasant occupation withal. It probably felt hurt anyway, the nasty man in Psych said it should be strangled for Bio 2a. Then again, this one didn't seem mad, though it was expectorating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cats, Yard Cops, or Psych 1. What Can You Expectorate? | 9/21/1943 | See Source »

...from 60,000 workers, plus a percentage from the insurance companies. Later Garfield built other hospitals, many first-aid stations in Kaiser shipyards and plants. The hospitals have air conditioning, attractive paint jobs and Venetian blinds. The most unusual feature: rooms are private or semiprivate, because Garfield believes pleasant surroundings help recovery; and "Henry Kaiser-fanatical believer in a medical golden rule-maintained that if he himself should have a private room, then so should every worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Master Builder | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Nothing to cite in an essay on modern drama, but a very pleasant evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

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