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Word: thoughtful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writers for TIME rise to truly poetical expression. I recall such writing in the past when you described the U.S.A. in springtime or autumn, and now, in your issue of Nov. 28, again you express this lofty quality in stating what, in varying degrees of clarity, was the national thought this Thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...people who administer the Marshall Plan in Paris got a shock last week. They had hired a French public opinion expert in July to poll his country on what it thought of American aid, and last week he made his report. According to this poll, most of the French hadn't heard of the Marshall Plan, and those who had didn't particularly like...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Before yesterday, the Navy had been unsure of the proper interpretation of the clause. But in Washington last night the Navy's candidate training director Comm. L. C. Heinz said he thought the Navy could now "start applying the clause now that the point of controversy has been cleared up." But Heinz was not sure what this application would mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Refuses to Change 'Loyalty Oath' Wording | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

Tests made at Duke University had shown the validity of Psychokinesis, the control of movement through thought. This was demonstrated, the Duke experimenters claimed, by people who apparently influenced the fall of dice by concentrating on what numbers would occur. So far the Harvard experiments have not borne out this theory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSP Plans Tests In Telepathy for Today, Tomorrow | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Eight-one percent said they thought there is a need at the College for an ice rink. The rink, which would be strictly a "natural" one dependent on the weather, would be regulation hockey size and could be used by the varsity and House hockey squads. It would be located probably in the stadium or right next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Indicates Skating Rink Wanted by Undergraduates | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

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