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Word: serious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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European leaders, stubborn and shortsighted though many of them may be, believe that the U.S. does not know what it is really asking when it presses for integration. They argue correctly that integration-even in easy stages-would cause a serious crisis in Western Europe before it could start doing any good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Integration | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...whole production-including Horace Armistead's sets and Robert Lewis' staging-has been done with style. Though an effective Regina in her first serious Broadway role, Jane Pickens, with perhaps the least vocal right, leaves the most determinedly operatic impression. More memorable are Brenda Lewis' overall performance as the pathetic Birdie and Newcomer Russell Nype's comic charm as the loathsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Granting that malaria is no longer a serious problem in most of the U.S., Dr. Warshaw warns: "It is impossible to predict when a change in climatic conditions, even though temporary, may cause an explosive outbreak." However, the widespread epidemics expected after U.S. servicemen returned from malarial outposts in Africa and Asia have not developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Shakes | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...varsity football team got down to serious work yesterday in preparation for Saturday's Brown game, as the defensive platoons scrimmaged freshmen running Bruin winged-T plays and the offensive units polished their plays against dummies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Prepares for Brown With Offense, Defense Drills | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

...continued much longer than this for political reasons. But if Congress fails to renew the Plan, and at the same time tactfully continues to duck the question of our own trade barriers, a dollar starved Europe is going to have to arable around pretty hard to keep from a serious economic cave...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

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