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Word: scraps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction and history, all in his "spare" time. His fellow doctors ''used to think I was a little cracked, but they've learned to tolerate me." He admits that his patients often have trouble when they try to read Poet Williams. Says a patient in one scrap of Williams' poems: "Geeze, Doc, I guess it's all right but what the hell does it mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry Between Patients | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

British Captain Clinton, an army officer among the camp's airmen, had been a university student before the war. The scrap of paper blown to freedom by the wind made him think of the deus ex machina that so often solved Greek tragedies. His thoughts turned to the fall of Troy. Suddenly he "found himself running ... an idea racing through his mind . . . Peter-he must find Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vault to Freedom | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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