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Word: unexpectedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Crimson's bid for national squash recognition received an unexpected blow yesterday afternoon when Coach Jack Barnaby's squash team was upset by Williams in a match played at Williams town. The score was 6 to 3.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Men Bow To Williams, 6-3; '53 Triumph, 5-4 | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Such a situation is neither new or unexpected. When the nations gave the power of preserving peace to the UN in 1945, they must have known that any successful international organization would need armed force. You can't achieve peace by talk, even if it be broadcast over radio and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holy Peace? | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

These plans were meeting opposition last week from an unexpected quarter-Germany. Both Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Socialist Opposition Leader Kurt Schumacher have said that they do not want a German army. A public-opinion poll in the new republic showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Arm the Germans? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Every year, some 10,000 ailing babies are born in the U.S. to parents with hostile blood types caused by the mysterious Rh factor.† Even with the most modern treatment, the best that doctors could hope for in such cases was to hold the death rate down to 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Machine Answered | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

David Lilienthal's decision to retire from public service Wednesday, while not exactly unexpected, was an unhappy event. No man has given more of his time, energy, health, and peace of mind to his country than the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He left a luerative private practice in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loss | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

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