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Word: unwantedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 300 men, mostly Harvard freshmen, were turned away from that first dance because the legal capacity for the Union (1000 students) had been surpassed. Unwanted teenagers had worked their way through the back windows, through the fire escape leading to the television room, and by some methods which still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Dance To Be Guarded | 11/6/1965 | See Source »

Psychological Hangover. By far the commonest reason, wherever the law is liberally construed, is not the physical condition of the mother-to-be but her mental state. Many pregnant women insist that if they are forced to carry and bear an unwanted child, they will go mad or commit suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gynecology: More Abortions: The Reasons Why | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

Joy & Pride. Even some of the daring innovations seem questionable. For instance, all secretaries are given the interior glass walls; officials are relegated to the windowless exterior spaces. The concrete ramps (a favorite Le Corbusier device) and walkways that frame the central plaza add an unwanted clutter. The central, mushroomlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Symbol for a City | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

THE GARDENERS OF SALONIKA by Alan Palmer. 285 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.50. Late in September 1918, the Kaiser was bluntly told by his generals that Germany had lost World War I. Why? "As a result," Field Marshal von Hindenburg explained, "of the collapse of the Macedonian front." He was stunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victors Without Laurels | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Unwanted Praise. Wieland Wagner has worked hard to whitewash the shrine that was erected in 1872 by Richard Wagner to himself. He feels that his grandfather's genius has triumphed over the unwanted critical interpretation from Adolf Hitler, who once observed: "Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: A Freudian Ring | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

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