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Word: thinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, I liked the cover and think that your cover artists are the cleverest in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...line and trace the source of champagne and Scotch to the pantry with the single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is looking for. Said Joanne: "I don't really like college boys. I know what they are going to say and how they think. They're so silly, and don't know how to drink." Some of the college boys seemed to share her indifference. Said a Yale man: "All you can do at a deb party is talk, and who wants to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Wise Beyond Years | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...think it's Timm for a prediction," remarked his apostle. "Howarthings going to come...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Tigers May Burn Brighter But Ladies Will Be Tighter | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

...sleep drug. Later, I discovered that while I was unconscious the doctors had, without my permission or extra charge, performed a radical prefrontal lobotomy on me, Specialists that I have visited since (at $25 a visit) have advised me that the Hygiene Department did wrong. I do not think so. Ever since the operation, I've led a happier, more contented existence. Nothing worries me; my roommates love me. My grades also have improved markedly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prefrontal Lobotomy | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

Well of course no previous arrangements had been made! But when it was clear that hundreds more people were coming than could be admitted, I think that arrangements might have been made--if not immediately, at least when the suggestion had been proffered. Such relays by amplifier have been made before, and the equipment could have been set up in fifteen minutes. Indeed, several people informed me that the necessary equipment was sitting no farther away than the floor below, in the psycho-acoustic laboratory. In this way 500 more people could have been satisfied, capacity the 50 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

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