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Word: thought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This committee would help students who thought they had been bilked to prepare Small Claims Court actions, and it often conducted investigations of its own to make sure that the unsuspecting purchaser got a square deal at retail or repair establishments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consumer First Aid | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...worth a pound of cure, I've always heard. That's why I wouldn't ordinarily have gone to the Hygiene Building when I woke up one morning shaking with fever. But I knew I was too sick to study for my hour exam the next day, so I thought I'd better...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when you are entertaining the Prime Minister of India, but it's hard bringing up a family in it. Imagine eating breakfast...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Alexander Knox, in addition to having written the play, is co-starred in its along with Doris Nolan (who is also Mrs. Knox). Both are very talented actors, thought it seems that Miss Nolan gives the better performance. Of course, as the wise and kind wife, she has the more admirable part. Mr. Knox portrays the demented man as a fumbling, bewildered person rather than a maniacal killer. What in "The Closing Door" seems like underplaying by Mr. Knox, may be an authentic interpretation of a particular type of insanity, but it is not effective on the stage. Eva Condon...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Later last night, Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of the Young Progressives, and John A. Balley '51, treasurer, said they thought Bonney's statements were irrelevant to the question and that any rebuttal by the Progressives would be similarly irrelevant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Capt. Bonney Gives Answer To YP Charge | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

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