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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scale of aid was not great enough; the purpose was divided, and therefore rendered ineffective. In the beginning, U.S. policy did not adequately recognize that a first-class rebellion was in progress which required swift and powerful measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: SO LONG, FELLA | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Hawkins day. To New York Herald Tribune Radio Columnist John Crosby, who thought he detected a likeness between the whiskered shmoo and a certain Chicago newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche's superman or the Superman of the comic books. It is a super-animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Miracle of Dogpatch | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Gulliver's Travels, Swift describes the "struldbrugs," the unhappy old men & women who could not die but were "uncapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection . . . The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Senile Statistics | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Coach Elmer Madar came here this fall after a year of professional football with the Baltimore Colts. Here's his formula for a good end: "He has to be a combination player, a back and a lineman at the same time. He should be agile, swift, and able to adjust to the various situations that come up. On defense, he should be rugged and rough, on offense smooth and shifty. In other words, he should be well-rounded...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: End Coach Madar Won All-American Honors at Michigan Under Valpey | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Before the sun had set Saturday, Crimson band members had rolled up more yardage than both teams combined. The Cornell band was good too, although its swift, Charley Chaplin-like footwork overshadowed its playing ability...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Auroral Band Concert Jolts House Parties | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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