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Word: slices (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain exactly what applied science included. Chemists, biologists, medical men all entered the fight along with the engineers to get a slice of the will...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Million-Dollar McKay Laboratory Opens | 10/16/1953 | See Source »

Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, said yesterday the College decrease was due to the administration's effort to slice the freshman class from last year's 1,215 to a figure nearer the "ideal" level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slight Drops in Enrollments Noted by College, University | 10/8/1953 | See Source »

...Hive tells no story. It "sets out to be ... a slice of life told step by step," and consists of short sketches, most of them only a page or so in length. Out of these hundreds of fragments, a world takes shape, peopled, according to the author's own count, by no less than 160 characters. None of the characters holds a central role. They first come into focus in a shabby cafe, and are followed with an artful candid camera about the wintry city as they hunger for food or affection and disclose, in commonplace words and gestures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snapshots of Madrid | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

RECREATION Gnus Nix Zax­Tut In the dusk of many summer evenings, for the quiet time when television cloys and the children scuttle in chase of the Good Humor man, an ever-growing slice of the U.S. public has found a new diversion. Its name: Scrabble. Its components: a board with 225 squares, 100 small wooden counters bearing letters of the alphabet, two to four players, ability to spell (or a handy dictionary) and a few ounces of competitive spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: Gnus Nix Zax--Tut | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...They . . . believed firmly in standards of behavior, in right and wrong, in law and its opposite, disorder. They might differ in particulars, but the great ends of living were common in their thinking; and they were assured that literature, to have meaning, must offer not only a slice of life but a criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 22 Lasting Stories | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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