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Word: quainter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, has there been a more striking example of "how the law, when administered with insufficient humanity, can not only condone injustice but actively inflict it." Seldom, either, had Britain as a whole been more concerned over the strange workings of some of its quainter laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: English Justice | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...suggested that that students should reed their local newspapers and become as quainter with the political situation "We must broaden the base of political interest," he said, "and we must do something about machine monopoly, which threatens civic liberty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woodruff Demands Student Action Against Voter Apathy to Politics | 12/16/1954 | See Source »

...Adolph Zukor are publishing reminiscences about the good old days, studios are remaking old hits (e.g., The Covered Wagon and Ben Hur), production schedules read like mail-order history (Demetrius and the Gladiators, Prince Valiant). But the most startling forays into the past occur at Hollywood's quainter eating and drinking places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to Pompeii | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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