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Word: theres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kyser's solicitude for lackwit contestants may stem from his own difficulties in graduating from the University of North Carolina. The combined efforts of his erudite family (his cousin was dean of the Graduate School; his uncle founded the Pharmacy Department) barely managed to get him an A.B. degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Higgledy-Piggledy. But of course, added Berlin, "many of these excellent young people could not . . . either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities. That is to say, their thoughts came higgledy-piggledy out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Helpers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week the law caught up with De Jesus. He was arrested, finally consented to an injunction dissolving his college as an illegal corporation; he would still face charges of the Department of Welfare for having accepted too much relief. But there was no injunction to stop his hundreds of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ad Valorem . . . | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

After the concert last week, William Primrose said: "There isn't anything missing in this concerto. It has everything-excitement, pathos, deep feeling and in places an almost folksong quality." Added Hungarian-born Conductor Dorati, who introduced Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Dallas last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dead Man's Diamond | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The play chronicles a cruise taken by two old school friends (Ruth Ford and Ruth Matteson) with their dissimilar and discordant husbands, one a businessman (Arthur Margetson), the other a novelist (Tom Helmore). The wives shortly espy a tourist named Clutterbuck (Charles Campbell) on whom they had both, it transpires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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