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Word: pseudo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocked to note that the CRIMSON has fallen heir to Dr. Hunt's racist propaganda, ("Girls May Become Lanky Hillbillies," Jan. 14). As a descendant of that small but courageous band of Frenchmen who migrated to Canada in the early 16th century, I find your pseudo-scientific comments a blot on the blossom of French-Canadian womanhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANUCK CONVERSION | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

...happy to be in the Northland where a man could see his breath when he was outdoors, and you could see winter sports every day. It would be sad to have to go back to the pseudo-winners in Cambridge, and study of exams, and not be able to talk about skiing with people who didn't know anything about...

Author: By E. H. Harvry, | Title: Vag at Lake Placid | 1/8/1954 | See Source »

...disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand Russell. His Satan in the Suburbs consisted of five stories whose weird plots and good-natured skepticism made for pretty good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...imitator, casually munching grapes, strolled into Sanders Theatre in the middle of Finley's lecture. The usually composed professor faltered and then completely abandoned Dante to fellow the intruder's actions. The scantily clad pseudo-Roman sat down in the middle of the main aisle without cracking a smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finley Talk Disturbed By Toga-Clad Visitor | 12/16/1953 | See Source »

...hand, there is the polygamous group living under the Towers of Tumurru -on the other are those fading movie queens, practicing a sort of pseudo-polyandry, who shed a husband as easily as a snake does his skin and about as often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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