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Word: recurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While not daily occurences, such pranks seem to recur more often than at Harvard. When asked why, some students say that academic pressures build up to the point where they "just have to go out and throw a water bomb." An interesting thesis advanced by another is that pranks are merely "an attempt to show the rest of the world that we're really human beings...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Tech Student Can Pull Pranks Or Study Hard With Equanimity | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

...girls in the course of one short summer holiday. He also records the most shocking blunder of his life-chastely kissing little "Atty" Owen, a "child" who turned out to be 17. "Mrs. Owen treats the matter quite seriously! She adds, 'We shall take care it does not recur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Stone Days | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...this mechanism, the execution part of the problem, which has raised the most constant furor. The complaints would not recur with such persistance if they were groundless. And, in fact, the courses in elementary French, German, and Spanish are little more than dull for student and instructor alike, a malaise traced to dogged adherence to the rules of grammar. Memorizing the order of verbs, pronouns and whatnot, lists of idioms, and verb forms may be necessary, but there is no need for the zealous stress currently laid on them. This process only dulls what ardor there is for learning, through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language Barrier | 11/20/1952 | See Source »

Since all such patients firmly believe themselves pregnant, it does no good simply to tell them that they are not, said Dr. Fried and his colleagues. A woman with pseudocyesis will go shopping for another doctor to confirm her pregnancy, or her symptoms will soon recur. A careful explanation with a little psychiatric treatment does the trick, said the doctors. Four of their patients, infertile for two to seven years, later became really pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not Even Slightly | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...trial, the prison doctor explained that Howlett was suffering from hysterical blindness which ended when he was set free. The defense said it might well recur if he were put behind bars again. The judge was not impressed. Last week Howlett was in prison again, this time for six: months, and still seeing clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bicycle Thief | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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