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Word: wandering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people, I suppose--and if they're not there, the performance that night gets a poor response. That's why I prefer concerts to night clubs. When somebody is willing to lay out money for tickets to hear me, I know they're interested. Almost anybody is likely to wander into a night club, though, and they may not be in tune with my 'great artistry...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

Quincy House's dining room attracted only a few misguided freshmen. Those who did wander into the ninth House were impressed by the spaciousness and open feeling of the dining room and by the absence of the customary long lines for dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Leave Union to Sample Fare in Houses | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

...possibilities are infinite: each coffee house could contribute its own favorite guitarist and folk singers to wander and strum on different days. Russian Volga songs, French chansons; perhaps even American folk songs (though this is recommended hesitantly) would float between the tables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cold Comfort | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

...Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks of M'Boshi shanties on fire. The official estimate of the number of dead was 98, but bodies, mutilated, decaying or bloated, continued to turn up. The occasional white resident who happened to wander into the danger zone was politely told to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO REPUBLIC: On Their Own | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...those who have serious doubts as to their math abilities, an option in biology might replace the semester of mathematics; such a course would preferably develop a few large concepts--like evolution and genetics--rather than wander into descriptive specificity. Under this program a second semester which explored biochemical problems might be valuable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Program for Natural Sciences | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

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