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Word: rather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final member of the panel, J. Dougas Bush, professor of English, said that one problem today is that "poets write for other poets" rather than for the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Speaks In Eliot on Poets | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...Nevertheless," Fairbank said, "It would be foolish for the United States to take a hostile and negative attitude toward the Chinese Communists rather than establishing reasonably friendly relations to keep the economic and cultural ties we still have with China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Recommends U.S. Recognition of Chinese Reds | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Most of Radcliffe has come out in favor of the new hair crop. "I rather like the new hair styles, but I can't figure out why," stated Sue Smart '52. Not Kathy Greenman '53, however, who explained "I've always wanted to be a boy anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scissors Run Rampant on Annex Coiffures | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...along with Doris Nolan (who is also Mrs. Knox). Both are very talented actors, thought it seems that Miss Nolan gives the better performance. Of course, as the wise and kind wife, she has the more admirable part. Mr. Knox portrays the demented man as a fumbling, bewildered person rather than a maniacal killer. What in "The Closing Door" seems like underplaying by Mr. Knox, may be an authentic interpretation of a particular type of insanity, but it is not effective on the stage. Eva Condon, in the role of the Grandmother, also does a good acting...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Bender noted that Harvard men have long been "very sensible about deliberate property damage." If destruction results from accident rather than a premeditated plan, he added, the University's wrath will take less severe forms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender Threatens Expulsion For Any Yale Game Vandals | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

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