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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Winds. A toy storm was pleasant, for a change. All week Robert Schuman had been grappling with man-sized tempests. He badly needed a magic button to press-but nowhere in the jittery, confused National Assembly was there the solid majority which could provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Time Presses | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Mojave was well-watered, forested country. Amateur Archeologist Stahl tramped the desert, traced the course a river once ran, tumbling from the mountains down over a waterfall (now a dry lava cliff). Half a mile below the "falls," Stahl found a little rounded hill which must have been a pleasant spot in late Pleistocene times. "Here," he said, "is where I would camp if I were a Pinto Man." He dug holes in the bone-dry earth. Three feet below the surface he found stone artifacts characteristic of Pinto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Parker (the woman of the title) in a double role. It is almost impossible to be frightened by the picture, but everybody involved seems to "savor" the period, as if it were fine old brandy. The brandy isn't as good as all that, but the savor is pleasant in an old-fashioned sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...wasn't a very pleasant weekend for the Crimson. Captain Frank Gurley, moving up in the last 20 yards of his 880 heat, was hit from two sides and knocked down. He didn't finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Crew Wins Sprint Crown; Track Team Takes Seventh Place | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

...time it was different. As Jockey Arcaro (rhymes with sparrow) paraded to the post last week in the first race at Jamaica,'applause pattered down from the stands. Eddie sat up straight, took off his cap and waved it high. He rated the cheer, even if it was a pleasant surprise. Three days before, he had won the Kentucky Derby?and become the first jock in history to win the Derby four times. He was now after another honor: to be the first to win horse racing's Big Three (Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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