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Word: returned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DuBridge's logical, down-to-earth views in your March 31 Science section will, I hope, enable Sputnik-frenzied Americans to return safely to reality. The several billions required to finance a wasteful moon voyage could be expended more profitably for cancer research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...gallant fight of U.S. against colonialism is most interesting. I suggest that the U.S. return Louisiana to France, Florida to Spain, and Alaska to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...play concerns the return of Moses to Egypt not in his old role of Egyptian prince and general but in his now passionately held role or Jew. Although staging great characters--Shaw's Caesar--can be an opportunity to demonstrate what made them great, Fry does not achieve this. Yet Fry does make Moses a magnetic leader, a man of inspiration, a man whose motives and courses of action, often at odds with practicality or common sense, are hard for others--and sometimes Moses himself--to understand. Despite all this, the audience develops as much sympathy for Fry's Pharaoh...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Firstborn | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

...transit gloria Mundi," said Copey. "Leave the course and never return...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Charles Townsend Copeland | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...nobody moved. Finally, one brave soul ventured towards the door, and soon the class began to file downstairs from Harvard 6, the site of English 2 for many years. Suddenly, one of the leaders shouted from downstairs, "Here he is!" There was a mad scramble to return to the room, but "Kitty" was on the platform before all were settled. "When I was an undergraduate in this College," he bellowed, "by thunder we never went back for a professor." He then proceeded to deliver an incomprehensibly brilliant lecture, in the course of which he scared away a 38-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KITTREDGE | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

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