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Word: puppydog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Library: Half a Decade of Decadence | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

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