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Word: writed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hope I am just one of the many Roman Catholics who will take time to write and express their anger after reading the March 25 review of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison. Has your editor been seeing so many bad movies he doesn't like them to be decent anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Then, surprisingly enough, Harold himself wrote a letter to his wife. Apparently a funny thing had happened after he died: those ingenious Venutians had brought him back to life. Harold said that he would write again soon. Mrs. Berney was skeptical. Pauline began to wonder. Pleasant McCarty began to wonder. The Federal Bureau of Investigation heard of the business, and it began to wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two Weeks on Venus | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...free. Examples: ¶ Now ten years old, Yale's Scholars of the House program has provided much of the inspiration for the big fight for independence. Each year 15 to 18 seniors are allowed to pick a research project and a professor to give them guidance. They may write a novel or produce a volume of poems, pursue such topics as "William Wordsworth's Metrical Forms" or "Development of the Hero in Dostoevsky's Novels. " Though the Yale library is their chief haunt, they have carried on research everywhere from Washington to Israel to Tunisia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Set the Student Free | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...nature, he cited the mathematical study of languages which revealed that the equation relating the frequency with which certain words are used is of the same form as the equation for the distribution of the bodies in a system that has come to equilibrium. He used a blackboard to write equations, much to the pleasure of the Sanders audience, but to the consternation of those in the New Lecture Hall...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Oppenheimer Stresses The Unity of Science | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...play should be a comedy, and often is. But Mr. Ginsburg had three or four too many minds working at once, and he drops in unfortunate streaks of tragedy and melodrama. Much of this seems due to unwillingness to write his own play--he lets history control too much of the plot, and too rarely selects or rejects events or details. He makes a sprawling leap into the life of the prince regent (the future King George IV) of England, and hopes, evidently, that a comedy with serious scenes and historical validity will emerge. Instead, he creates an amorphous opus...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The First Gentleman | 4/11/1957 | See Source »

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