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Word: listlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Listless Play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Seeks Initial Win Tonight at M.I.T. | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

...odds since the Reformation, old differences were forgotten in a common defiance of the Nazis, a common defense of the Jews. The Church in occupied Europe has taken a new lease on life because it has fought not only for its own preservation but for all freedom. Churches grown listless and smug under state support turned suddenly about in the state's default and themselves assumed the responsibility of leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop and the Quisling | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against its massive prison buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Listless Lawyer. By 1905 Holland Smith, 23, graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Old Man of the Atolls | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...hopelessly confused with prints which might have been found later on a piece of glassware. The mystery of how the mosquito netting over Sir Harry's bed could burn without smudging the white ceiling was left unsolved. On these and many other points the Crown had seemed strangely listless. But the defense had shown the same caution, left spectators puzzling over its failure to challenge numerous alibis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Killer at Large | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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