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...Snug as a bug, the cup he waits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roaring 50s | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...full of another concept of shelter for the human family in the form of'a great whirling blade overhead, which swishes into outer space all cold and fog and wind and rain, together with the moth and rust that corrupt, leaving the shipping clerk and his riveter wife snug and secure with their three children inside the wall-less vacuum of his dreams. If any fool objects that the neighbors can see in, there are always curtains, or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...DECEMBER-Snug Harbor. In Mt. Clemens, Mich., when police asked Melvin Reno why he was driving his car on the sidewalk, he muttered: "I'm too drunk to be on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Snug Harbor. In Mt. Clemens, Mich., when police asked Melvin Reno why he was driving his car on the sidewalk, he muttered: "I'm too drunk to be on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Although his main love is teaching, he likes the administrative side of education, and even has built himself a snug philosophy to justify his dual role as teacher-administrator. "When you're an administrator," he contends, "you tend to think of yourself as the best teacher in the school, but if you do some teaching at the same time, you can deflate yourself quite easily. You find that you can put a class to sleep as fast as anyone else...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: John J. Curry | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

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