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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is always pleasing to find one's most tender beliefs verified by science, for the good lady often plays the iconoclast. And now, from Athens, Georgia, a city indeed well fitted to give knowledge to the world, comes the news that a child can annoy its parents in 2124...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILD'S PLAY | 1/30/1931 | See Source »

"Strictly Dishonorable" has shown that its a comedy of modern American life it is quite supreme. Preston Strugess has injected into the one and only good play that he has written a most pleasing balance of humor and satire that makes one chuckle and laugh out loud alternately for three...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

Also displeasing to Dr. Cumming is the fact that only one out of four country people have adequate, properly organized local health service. He declared that local health service is far more important than any campaign against a special disease. Pleasing was the reorganization of the Hygienic Laboratory as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health of the Nation | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

The impromptu scene was edifying. The picture of 3500 "well-groomed decent citizens"--the epithets are culled from the Associated Press--shouting at the top of their lungs to "punch" Lindsey, to "lynch him" is only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVELATION | 12/9/1930 | See Source »

Last week the New York Stock Exchange and New York Curb Exchange suspended for insolvency the firm of Bauer, Pogue, Pond & Vivian-the seventh such suspension since the bear market began.* Although the firm was of fair size, the action affected only a few stocks, did not halt last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Seventh Failure | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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