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Word: violent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lilienthal has made a positive contribution to the concept of civil service by leaving private life when he was trained and experienced to devote his most vigorous years to government service. He has stuck through a series of violent and unjustified personal attacks to uphold his thesis that trained men in their prime belong in government work. He proved this thesis at the cost of his privacy and his personal happiness...

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

...stage-struck hayseed from Ohio, Betty is in love with a struggling young director (Victor Mature). She is also in love with the tinsel night life of the big city, a yen which presently involves her in murder and a violent brush with the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Eight Princeton and four Harvard undergraduates were removed to Cambridge police headquarters early today after three hours of the most violent rioting seen in Harvard Square in a decade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Arrest 15 in Square As Riot Follows Tiger Rally | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...that time the stands were rabid, and in 22 years of watching Harvard football, I've never heard so (sic) violent spectator reaction,' he said...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Next time, around, Autry lets loose with a fairly heterogeneous collection of songs. From his familiar theme, he goes through "Someday," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Room Full of Roses," and "Ghost Riders in the Sky." In the last-named number, the arena is darkened, ultra-violent rays beam down on Gene's fluorescent shirt, and a herd of cattle parades across the floor...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE RODEO | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

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