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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is one excellent story and the usual competent verse, but the uniformly high standard of the writing is decidedly lacking in the February number, and most of the material leaves the unsatisfactorily impression that one has read it somewhere before. And the appearance of the magazine, heretofore so pleasant, has been largely spoiled by the change to a smaller type size. That may be a minor criticism, but the new look makes the pages seem gray and almost formidable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 2/28/1948 | See Source »

...best training in business administration, publishing and selling that undergraduate life offers a Harvard man. The CRIMSON building will be a worthwhile place tonight for anyone interested in a business career who would like to learn in an atmosphere where learning is pleasant and mistakes don't count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Vernal Competitions Dawn | 2/25/1948 | See Source »

...about "Panic" that could have been done equally well in an American production. The basic excellence of this French film lies not in inspiration, not in outstanding acting, not in great tragedy-all things which are occasionally present in Hollywood pictures-but in the realization that while it is pleasant to believe that little people are good and noble, they are usually just little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

Palomar Mountain is more pleasant than most. The dormitory (called the "Monastery") is pleasant too. For day-sleeping astronomers, the bedrooms have soundproofed walls and doors and black window shades. The only intruders in this astronomical Eden are the woodpeckers that like to drill away at the Monastery's copper roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...would be pleasant to be able to say that Boris Goldovsky had closed the fall-winter season of his New England Opera Theater with a production as thoroughly satisfactory and promising as his first two. Mr. Goldovsky chose for the last work in his "Mozart Festival" an opera whose problems of staging, casting, and setting have always been imposing; and yesterday's performance indicated, unfortunately, that his group is not yet up to the task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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