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Word: welshing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the miners had come over the Welsh hills singing hymns as they came and crying aloud for "Nyrin, a king among men." Nye had gone down in the pits as one of them, with them had ridden the grimy streetcars, allotted to keep miners apart from clean folk. Miners held him their champion when he ranted against the Tory "vermin." In the Labor Party's councils, Nye was a leader of the tough unionists with small patience for the pale, university-trained Fabians such as Hugh Gaitskell. Unless Nye could capture the vote of his own miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rejected Man | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Robert K. Donovan, Andover, History; David E. Pingree, Andover, Classics and Sanskrit; William Alonso, Arlington, Architectural Sciences; Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Arlington, Germanic Languages and Literature; Alexander Welsh, Brookline, English; John G. Benedict, Cambridge, English; Robert A. G. Monks, Cohasset, History; William M. Calder, Concord, Latin; Herbert B. Olfson, Dorchester, Economics; Daniel J. Collins, Jr., Haverhill, Chemistry; John F. Wilson, Hopkinton, Government; Richard C. Hirschhorn, Longmeadow, Biology; Jaroslaw Bilinskij, Milton, Government; Robert D. Papkin, New Bedford, Government; Martin A. Goldman, Newton, Economics; Stephen J. Healey, III, Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Genuine Scholars A Hidden Army, LaFarge Declares | 6/15/1954 | See Source »

...George B. Sohier Prize of $250 "for the best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature" was given to Charles M. McEwen, Jr. '54 for his thesis "Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Fifth Duino Elegy.'" Alexander Welsh '54 won honorable mention for his work entitled "The Experience of Mortality in the Poems of A. E. Housman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Essay Prizes Go to Nine Seniors and Graduates | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...Circles on Paper. The authors Hanson, who have made a solid reputation with biographies of the Bronte sisters, Jane Welsh Carlyle and George Eliot, are too fair and balanced a team to want to debunk Gordon. "But a man without fault is dreadfully dull and also extremely improbable. What ... we asked ourselves, was this man really like?" He was a small, blue-eyed Scot whose charm was so great that even his enemies forgave his furious temper and Messianic pomposity. He detested formal society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In a Terrible Country | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...McCarthy's a liar. They're all liars. They oughtta hang 'em all." It was the mimicer talking. "That Welsh now. He's from Boston, but he's no good. A Republican, that's what...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: The Bloodshot Eye | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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