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...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 »

Also named were Judith Kapstein, of Providence, R.I. and Moors Hall, Fine Arts; Ann Fairchild Stephans, of New York City and Eliot Hall, English; and Beatrice Tugenhat, of Webster, Mass. and Moors Hall, Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Annex Juniors Selected to Join Phi Beta Kappa | 3/5/1953 | See Source »

...matter is whether or not they have a sexy pair of ski-pants (If they're Radcliffe students) or a couple of bottles of Old Crow (if they're Harvard men). After all, the word "skiing" in the vocabulary of the normal red-blooded American doesn't usually fit Webster's definition-it means something different to every "skier...

Author: By James M. Sitzmark, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

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