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Word: sadnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working through the night, Red Cross, Civil Defense, police and other rescue groups dug hundreds of survivors from the wreckage. By daylight the city turned a weary, sad eye on the results: 21 dead, more than 300 injured, 1,800 families left homeless, 1,725 buildings damaged. Total storm cost: $12 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Five Minutes of Havoc | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

This mining town I live in is a sad and lonely place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Never a Time So Bad | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...relationship: "It was a very lovely spring day, Gertrude Stein had been going to the opera every night and going to the opera in the afternoon and had been otherwise engrossed and it was the period of final examinations and there was an examination in William James' course. She sad down with the examination paper before her and she just could not begin to work. "Dear Professor James,' she wrote at the top of her paper, 'I am sorry but really I don't feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today,' and left...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Gertrude Stein at Radcliffe: Most Brilliant Women Student | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...hardly be called a smooth, non-disruptive process. Until the bids are out and until most people have decided which club they are going to join, there is little sleep, little relaxation, and--throughout the period--no thought of academic matters. And, in this as in any Bicker, the sad spectacle of those "in trouble"--without bids, or with bids to clubs lower on the hierarchy than those their friends have received--existed...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Princeton Seeks a 'Meaningful Alternative' | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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