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Word: 18th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least moving, and they were the ones that proved how cold, competent and clear-eyed a painter Stuempfig is when he chooses not to be romantic. Dark, highly polished still lifes of vegetables on a table, they were so expertly done as to invite comparison with the 18th Century French master, Jean Baptiste Chardin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Romantic Mood | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...year's of Fogg Museum drawing acquisitions (1940-1950) went on exbition at the Museum yesterday. Other December exhibitions at Fogg include Venetian paintings of the 18th century and French paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Exhibitions | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...without regard to party. Taft supporters, who feared the drawing power of popular Democratic Governor Frank Lausche at the top of a straight-ticket ballot, figured the change was worth 100,000 votes to the Republicans next fall. Democrats prepared to challenge its legality. ¶Pennsylvania became the 18th state to approve (and New Jersey the 27th state to reject) a bonus for World War II veterans. Pennsylvania will start passing out its $500 million bonus (maximum payment: $500) within the next 90 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Be It Resolved . . . | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...deliberately advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Obey or Pay | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...should the devil have all the good tunes?" asked 18th Century Evangelist Rowland Hill, in a plea for hymns that would rival the popular music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gospel Harmony | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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