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Word: sic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hrdlicka was still not ready to give up. "It's a delusion," exclaimed he. "It does not amount to a scientific demonstration. There are many things that look like [sic] and many things that do not look like, but there is no proof. The geology of the earth is not like writing or even hieroglyphics -it is vague and indecisive. ... I have stopped arguing." He was willing to concede man in North America 7,000 or 8,000 years-perhaps even 10,000-but no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horatius at the Bridge | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Boston banker who put up money to get the Lampoon out of hot water ten years ago, said last night, "A significant piece of American collegiana will pass from the scene with the demise of the Lampoon. But I'm not putting any money up for a lost cause. Sic transit gloria mundi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Warns That College Expansion Era Is Over | 1/24/1940 | See Source »

...party's upkeep, plus his "pictures, sketches and studio effects." Last week this apparently inconsiderable be quest turned out to be a windfall. In his studio's litter was a small oil painting on a wooden panel, signed H. D., and titled (by Hasselbusch) Conjugal Parisiene (sic). Joyful experts identified it as one of famed Lithographer Honore Daumier's rare paintings. The Sketch Club banked it in a safe-deposit vault, planned to sell "to the right person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Windfall | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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