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Word: robustly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, the audience got to its feet for a robust Star-Spangled Banner and a dignified God Save the King. Then, for two hours, the music lovers watched Sir Thomas, one of the most graphic conductors of them all, play his perfectly disciplined orchestra like an organ. They heard great music played to the hilt with an unmistakably British accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strictly for Pleasure | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...could even the English have missed the "curiously sadistic strain" that she found in some of Wells's very first work, his fancy for cataclysmic upheavals and devastating horrors? Biographer Vallentin wonders. And yet, to all appearances, he was a hearty, jovial man, bursting with a robust humor that Miss Vallentin tries in vain to reflect, and inspired with a sense of duty to mankind that she manages to get across very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet, Card, Born Writer | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...robust Iowans will take over the door spit structure at the corner of Bow and Mr. Auburn Streets in a public ceremony at 1:15 p.m. tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Yields Field To'Toon's Humor | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

...trying to win our support," said one C.I.O. official. Former ECA "subordinates" who knew him when he was ECA administrator in The Netherlands spread the word that he was vituperative, bumptious, inflexible and prejudiced. "A brilliant fellow but a little kinky," said a former associate. "He's right robust with his own opinions." Even the Wall Street Journal, which claimed him as "business-minded," noted that "Rochester students consider Valentine a 'stuffy' prexy. Newspapermen have found him irascible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Treatment | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...second week in a row, there was a marked upswing in the number of seats sold in pairs, Lundeen reported, indicating that the dating habits of undergraduates are becoming increasingly robust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Ticket Sales Highest This Season | 10/18/1950 | See Source »

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