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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The trend of events in California served to prod liquor men into searching more quickly for a new front man. Because the late Forbes Morgan's close tie with the White House had caused comment, Chairman Brown and colleagues last week were looking for someone not too closely identified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War Between States | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

The quote continues, "Princeton men are usually very sociable and pleasing. Williams men are very nice, though not as glamorous." The "snooping reporter" was baffled by the subtle mellowed-with-learning phrase "saturated with Boston," which the young girls applied to Harvard men, and unfortunately took it as a n...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VASSAR LAUDS HARVARDMEN; "SATURATED WITH BOSTON" | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

"The Miracle of England" is no great contribution to literature or history as such, but it is a pleasing mingling of the two which makes it valuable. Behind the chronicle of events which of necessity makes up the backbone of a history, lies the real merit of the book. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

The complete illogicality of the charge that Harvard dismissed the two men because the wealthy, and wicked benefactors of the University were protesting the so-called "liberal" activity of Messers. Walsh and Sweezy becomes apparent when the political beliefs and activities of some other members of the Faculty are recalled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMB'S TALE | 5/15/1937 | See Source »

1? Philadelphia Public Ledger. They got their idea from Benjamin Day's New York Sun, which had been pleasing Manhattan's masses and enriching its proprietor at a penny a copy since 1833. Sledding hard in Philadelphia, Partners Simmons and Swain left it to Partner Abell to see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Century of Suns | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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