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Word: commitment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Band, it ought to commit "The Seafarer" and Eric Coates' "Knightsbridge March" to Vinylite, where people can get at them; they are probably the finest of its new arrangements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 3/11/1950 | See Source »

Close friends to Townsend said he had been melancholy since he entered the Army in the spring of 1946, and that he had announced intentions to commit suicide several times. He had occasionally been under the care of a University psychiatrist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Facts Suggest Dudley Senior Shot Himself | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

...that life ended, he admitted to his students that the world did not seem so bright to him as it had 43 years before. But, said he, "I don't want anybody to commit suicide over the fate of the world." He wanted his students to remember one thing: "History's continuity is greater and stronger than its changes." For Columbia, history without Carlton Hayes would be a change indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Last Class | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...never seen Chambers, but this did not faze him. He had psychoanalyzed Adolf Hitler in absentia, correctly predicting that Hitler would commit suicide. He said: "We have what is known as blind analysis"-analyzing the results of another psychologist's tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Some People Can Taste It | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...most important conclusion was that in prosperous times like the present the federal budget, instead of running $5.6 billion in the red, should be balanced. Admittedly, the U.S. should not commit itself to balancing the budget every year, the subcommittee said, for that would mean "drastic increases of tax rates or drastic reductions of Government expenditures during periods of deflation and unemployment, thereby aggravating the decline." But if the U.S. ran into the red in depression years, it had to show a surplus in prosperous years-and that meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blueprint for Balance | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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