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Word: abstractly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Citizen, anywhere from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me., is he against war and he will say Yes, sure. Sure he's against war. Even smack in the midst of a war that is being won, war in the abstract, war in the future, is about as popular as the man-eating shark. Sure he's against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREEDOM FROM ATTACK: International Police | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Boolba's poetry is much different from his painting, completely abstract full of symbols, and generally obscure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...Pauline Maury, a French professor at a Western University, petite, immaculate, poised, a hardheaded, practical woman who lives in a svelte, modern household with abstract paintings on the walls, Filipino servants and her works on French literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Promise | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...many an observer last week's foreign trade figures were a measure of just how big the job of rehabilitating U.S. imports is going to be. Best news of the week was Wendell Willkie's bold plea not just for Free Trade in the abstract but for reaffirmation of reciprocal trade treaties this summer by Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Widening Gap | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...sharpest clarification of U.S. war aims yet made came this week from Henry Agard Wallace. The country's often abstract and abstracted Vice President suddenly made the basic premise of U.S. thinking as clear as an Arizona summer's day: free enterprise will remain the American way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basic Premise | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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