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Word: squeamishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week R returned to the calendar. To squeamish folk who believe the ancient adage of the inedibility of oysters in summer (R-less) months, it was a signal to start gulping them again. To oystermen, who indulge the superstition to conserve oysters through their spawning season, it was a signal that the 1940-41 oyster season was on-a season in which they saw a chance to make big money for the first time in nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Blue Points Up | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...obviously owes much to Critic Van Wyck Brooks, with whom she corresponded-though Brooks disagreed with her somewhat unguarded conclusions. There is more than morbid fascination in Period Piece, more than a stunt in Biographer Ballou's reason for doing it: "It may be because critics have been squeamish about penetrating the subliterary world that literature is not at a generally higher level in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetess of Passion | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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