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Word: pots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arts! The arts have gone to pot," replied the Sultan cheerfully. Once his people found a man who could carve well, he went on, they would chain him and give him all the food, drink, women and tools his heart desired, and after some drinking and some lovemaking he would create masterpieces. But then the misguided British stopped the custom. They said it was slavery. "If any great city in America could tether a hundred young artists, chosen for their inventive faculties," concluded Pound, "that city would within two decades become the center of occidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Renegade as a Young Man | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...chronicles, browsed through French history, literature and economics. He was especially fond of books on Henry IV, the dynast from Navarre who began the Bourbon rule in France with the cynical remark, "Paris is worth a Mass," and the demagogic slogan, "Every family should have a fowl in the pot on Sunday." Bao Dai put his money in Swiss banks (and thereby saved it from World War II's reverses), collected stamps, practiced tennis with Champion Henri Cochet, learned ping-pong, dressed in tweeds and flannels, vacationed in the Pyrenees, scented himself heavily with Coty and Chanel perfumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The New Frontier | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...hardball games were listed, but Director of Intramurals Dolph Samborski released the following standings: HOUSE BASEBALL STANDINGS won lost pot Adams 1 0 1.000 Dudley 1 0 1.000 Winthrop 1 0 1.000 Lowell 1 1 .500 Dunstor 1 1 .500 Eliot 0 1 .000 Kirkland 0 1 .000 Leverett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather Cripples Schedule of Intras | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

Radcliffe's Freshman Weekend activities get underway this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. when the Class of '53 takes its senior sisters to Agassiz Theater to see "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" and "The Pot Boilers," two one-act plays produced by the freshmen. During the intermission, tea will be served from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. in the Agassiz living room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plays, Concert, Dance Open 'Cliffe '53 Weekend Today | 4/21/1950 | See Source »

...another Briggs room, a mouse climbs up and down the window curtain at will, taking tinsel from a plant pot for its nest. "We're afraid its pregnant," stated the occupants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rodents Romp at Radcliffe, Blithely Invite Eradication | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

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