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Word: similarity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several other sub-committees are conducting similar investigations independently. The survey is being coordinated by Thomas A. Unverferth '51, chairman of the Council Student Welfare Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Committee Checks Kitchens | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...Okinawa when Yamashita was on trial . . . The reports we received of the trial convinced me beyond doubt that Yamashita was a general who was doing his duty, completely ignorant and innocent of the murderous actions of his troops, and strangely similar in character and actions to the kindly, intelligent and duty-conscious General Kutuzov of Tolstoy's War and Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, at Dunster House, Secretary Marion Hambleton has been having similar difficulties over Albrechtskirchinger. Every other name fits neatly into House lists, but it takes not one, but two lines to squeeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Albrechtskirchinger' Is Too Long, So He's Called 'Albrechtskirchinge' | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...Princeton and Dartmouth teams show similar diversity, each drawing their players from 14 states, with no local preponderance such as Harvard's. Dartmouth has as many football players from Hawaii as Harvard does from Connecticut...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

Something Impalpable. "Just as in autumn," cries Sir Osbert Sitwell, casting his radiant glance back over the Firbank life work, "the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a thin mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar . . . intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Perfect Dear | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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