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...healthy human growth and that no psychotherapeutic treatment can succeed unless there is a change within the patient. She rejected the idea of man adjusting to society, saying that he has a natural desire to grow, "like an acorn has a natural desire to grow into an oak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Experts Agree Americans Not Too Neurotic | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

...PALMER Royal Oak, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Moriarty's was soon the Yaleman's second home. It picked up the na,me of "the quiet House," and class after class of Eli undergraduates developed a great fondness for the short, stumpy imitation English oak door, the sort, stumpy bar, the short, stumpy proprietor, and his short stumpy wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . Where the Eli Meet to Eat | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...reduced to rubble by Hitler's bombers in 1941. The new chamber, designed by Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built at a cost of ?1,750,000, still had banks of elaborately carved, green-cushioned wooden benches ranged on either side, as before, in front of ornate oak-paneled walls. Two red lines, woven into the green carpet and thoughtfully placed just over two sword lengths apart so that overenthusiastic partisans could not prick each other, once again marked the limits beyond which members of opposing parties were not allowed to step in the heat of debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Renovated Bottle | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...small kitchen garden planted with cabbage, was a red stake marked 38. "This is where your land begins," explained Conti. Amerigo's jaw dropped. "But this garden?" he wondered. Conti answered: "It's included. Your land goes to the ditch down there. Takes in half that oak tree." Amerigo exclaimed: "The acorns from that tree will be enough to keep a pig. We will have sausage at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Bear Must Die | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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