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Programmed by Pallas with special Formulae, Crystal resolved even the most Delicate and Naive from among student Life's many Complications. A Compassion Formula, for example, pulled Variants of the Word "sorry" from an international Thesaurus, compared them with Extracts from the University's Book of Rules, and, depending on particular Circumstance, computed a proper Consolation...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...nuclear race has spawned an arcane jargon of its own, one that proliferates as fast as the gadgetry that it describes. A thesaurus of key terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Missileer's Thesaurus | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...self-conscious on her sleeve!" In any case, she soon seemed to me more like the witch out of Disney's Snow White than anyone else (which only serves to show where my first conscious remembrance of fear lies.) Along the way, there is lots of exaggeration, a veritable thesaurus of recrimination...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Portnoy's Complaint | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

Baffle-Gab Theology Sir: Re your Baffle-Gab Thesaurus [Sept. 13], you failed to note that the bureaucrat selecting 257, "systematized logistical projection," would undoubtedly also feel compelled to invent a suitable acronym for his invention: in this case, SLOP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...Your Baffle-Gab Thesaurus strikes me as having endless possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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