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Word: resisting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale men are apparently unable to resist the lure of the quick buck: author last year removed 30 slot machines from dormitory hiding places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money-Hungry Yale Students Now Turn from Books to Bookmaking | 5/17/1951 | See Source »

...Concept. Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall wondered just what present U.S. policy in Korea was. He quoted a speech by Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk which said that the U.S. was trying to resist aggression and yet prevent a general war. What did the general think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Present Handicaps | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Emotional Orgy." Except in the competitive cities of New York, Washington and St. Louis, "the best newspapers in America are those which do not have a newspaper competing with them," said Cowles. Noncompetitive newspapers don't have to scramble hard for circulation, thus "are better able to resist the constant pressure to oversensationalize the news [and] the pressure of immediacy, which makes for incomplete, shoddy and premature reporting . . ." In general, noncompetitive dailies "have a deeper feeling of responsibility because they are alone in their field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Defense of Monopolies | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...cinemusical whose songs, dances and laughs sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor. Set among the lavish pleasures-scenic and feminine-of the French Riviera, the movie serves a fat double helping of Danny Kaye, playing both a brash U.S. entertainer and a debonair French hero whom women cannot resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...amusedly calls himself "the despair of the nuns." They hope for a deathbed display of piety from their speculative old boarder. Outside the convent, he is the despair and delight of his fellow philosophers and critics, who are confounded by his lack of a "system," but cannot resist the charming cadences of his style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Philosopher's Farewell | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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