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Word: questioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green and white seaside villa, "L'Horizon," Aly and Rita prepared for the day. "I'm so excited," Rita said in one of her rare statements, "I can hardly think. I'm sort of lost in a dream world. When someone asks me a question, I bring myself to and grunt." The word got out that Aly Khan had given her a swell diamond ring, an emerald-cut job. Bar-side reports had it that it was 32 karats-"As big as a belt buckle." (It turned out to be only twelve karats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Oui, Out | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Then how does the Committee intend to implement its policy, the young men ask. There is no satisfactory answer to that question. So the young men remain scared...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...Provost called the liaison man into his office and told him to cut it out. Thus, in one case the Fill system was discovered using such scare tactics and stopped. The question remains as to how many similar incidents have never been reported, but just brooded over by the victims...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Every time Harvard has had a good crew the question of the Poughkeepsie regatta has come up--always with the same answer: the HAA and its Yale counterpart have been unable to schedule the New London race so that the two crews can row at Poughkeepsie too. There are undeniable obstacles: the date of the race falls between the commencement exercises of the two schools, and the timing of exams and training for the regatta have made entrance in the Hudson affair impossible, as far as the respective booking agencies were concerned. But surely some solution can be worked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up the Creek | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

...patient was 23 years old and seemed to be a good-looking girl. But the first question Dr. Louis William Mara-ventano was asked in his Yonkers (N.Y.) office was: "What am I, a man or a woman?" "Joan" (the real name was withheld) was a pseudohermaphrodite* whose external genitals resembled both male and female organs. Something had gone wrong (doctors are not sure just how) during fetal development when the time came for the undifferentiated sex organs to become either completely male or completely female. The condition occurs in about one in 1,000 births; accurate figures are hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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