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Word: shallower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once upon a time, a little girl who lived on a small farm outside of Laramie, Wyoming owned a fuzzy dachshund named Pete. The farm was set on the very edge of the dry desert; the little girl's front lawn was crisis-crossed by a network of shallow irrigation ditches, which brought muddy water down from the hills after the heavy rains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaggy Dog | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNear Buried Soon, Fell-from 'Giant's Tooth' | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...Christianity is indivisible. Christianity is not a shallow materialistic concept masquerading as a .life philosophy, as are Leninism and Marxism; Christianity is a dynamic spiritual force that outlives all politics. Christianity is the answer to all ideologies. The only possible hope for peace and order in Europe lies in a federated Europe based on Christian ideals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Arthur Vandenberg, more temperate, nailed as "tragic mistakes" the State Department's "impractical insistence" on coalition with the Communists, and the Yalta agreement, negotiated, behind China's back, which opened the gates of Manchuria to Soviet armies. The Yalta deal was dismissed by the State Department with shallow cynicism as something the Russians could have done whether or not the U.S. had given its covert legal and moral sanction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Petition in Bankruptcy | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Voluntary Suspect. The curiosity gave way to horror and indignation 17 days later Cricket's bruised, partly clothed body had been found in a shallow grave on a mesa twelve miles from town. Happy Apodaca announced that she had been raped and murdered. No autopsy was held. Cricket was just sprinkled with lime and buried again. But Happy did take action-of a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: Cricket Coogler's Revenge | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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