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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the fabled ski jump at Woburn, Massachusetts has seen a goodly share of action this year, in pleasant contrast to last year's total of two practices after many hours of work had been sunk into its repair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Retires to Pinkham Notch To Tune Up for Dartmouth Carnival | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

...with a certain pleasant surprise that I find, in a popular American magazine with a wide circulation like TIME, motion-picture criticism which is independent, impartial, and which doesn't in the least bit cater to the interests of American motion-picture industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...those two points, the Secretary was adamant. No Senator tried very hard to shake him. He went back down the Hill. Behind him he left the impression that, if he did not get substantially what he had asked for, he would resign and go back to his pleasant colonial house in Leesburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: All or Nothing | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...clown named Popit, ran the show (a picture tour of Italy, an object lesson in How to Make Your Beanie out of Felt, a first-rate marionette show). "Big Brother's" Small Fry Club, with movies, followed on Du Mont. Big Brother began with a pleasant animated cartoon called Cubby the Bear, ended with an inspirational short about a proper if improbable child who hung his clothes in the closet without being told, and brushed his teeth up & down ("the way they grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Day with Television | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...note, do not seem to be disturbed by the gullibility of the characters. Certainly the audience in attendance new year's night in New York, if the opinion of a youthful, zestful, red-headed, and ordinarily discriminating young lady can be accepted as representative, found the picture entirely pleasant and amusing...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

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