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Word: webster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Delivery. In Middletown, Ohio, Letter Carrier Webster Newton opened a sidewalk mailbox to collect the outgoing mail, found a can of washing powder, four cans of cold beer, $11 in change, two keys, and 28 envelopes filled with scrap paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Last Saturday, Lewis Webster Jones, President of Rutgers, issued an open invitation to all loyalty investigators. With an almost incredible show of naivete, Jones said the current Congressional investigations into education, "would show the public what we are like." Investigators, if given a free run of campuses, would find "the overwhelming majority of our professors outstandingly loyal," said Jones, and relay this information to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wolf at the Door | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

...your "Legally Hot" story of Feb. 23, I was disillusioned when I read the phrase "mental telepathy." If you will look up the word telepathy in Webster's . . . you will find that you were guilty of tautology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...WEBSTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...described the "flavor" of Rosemary Clooney's voice during melancholy moods as being "cinnamon." My ears didn't think that they had tasted that one yet, so I consulted Webster. It says there that cinnamon is an "aromatic bark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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