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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewd U. S. businessmen feared only that industrial production may exhaust consumer demand before buying power slowly revives. But pleasing facts were: a 2.7% March-to-April rise in factory employment, a 4.4% rise in payrolls in the State of New York, both contrary to the usual season trend: an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: State of Trade | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Since the material of this course is conveyed almost entirely in the lectures, its success has been in large part the result of Professor Chase's pleasing personality and solid lecture method. Most of the time up to November Hours is spent in a study of the rather esoteric arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

There is no plot that the reviewer could discover in "Hi-de-ho." A very pleasing devil was running about and his domain seemed to be peopled with most agreeable dancers and singers. The most extravagantly successful act of the show was a prison orchestration by Bruce Johnson's Washboard...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/20/1933 | See Source »

When Kernel Pasha drove the illicit manufacturers out of Turkey some of them began secret operations in Bulgaria. At first the Bulgarian police, inexperienced in such things, were none too quick in detecting and suppressing the traffic. Recently, however, the Bulgarian authorities have proved themselves alert and effective in suppressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Simultaneous announcement of a one-year extension of the present temporary plan for student employment and of a further reduction in the cost of board is most pleasing to those who have labored so long to combat the current belief that Harvard is a rich man's college.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT EMPLOYMENT | 3/22/1933 | See Source »

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