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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Agnes Keith is a serious woman. The wife of a forestry expert working in the islands, she hopped perilously through the mountains by plane to talk to resettled Huk rebels, ventured into areas where two U.S. professors had recently been murdered because they inadvertently offended Ifuagao tribesmen, watched appalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Asian Friends | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

The workers challenged Dodds to do a week's work on a construction gang but were turned down ("From what I've seen I should almost die of monotony"). So last week they offered him a "safe conduct" if he would meet them on a street-corner to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Robbing the People | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Current pleas for a return to the humanities are symptoms of ignorance and an "anti-rational attitude which has been the curse of our century," I. I. Rabi, Nobel Prize winner and Morris Loeb Lecturer, declared last night in Sanders Theatre.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rabi Seeks Integration Of Sciences, Humanities | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

The President endorsed pleas of the seven Housemasters to relieve the House overcrowding that has forced opening of two new "out" building this fall.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Backs Pleas For Eighth House | 9/27/1955 | See Source »

Villas on the Hill. It is the precept of bachelor Mayor La Pira, who for years lived in a single cell in the famed Convent of San Marco, that every man in Florence is entitled to a roof over his head-no matter what the law says. When, in late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Little Political Pope | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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