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Word: affectionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirteen members of the New York Music Critics' Circle, whose favor can lead to national fame, met in a beery, benevolent back room of Manhattan's Blue Ribbon restaurant. But their task had something of the atmosphere of a coroner's inquest. Several of the members were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Critics' Choice | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

Universal Knowledge. "Holy is lucidity," as an English writer once put it, "and the mind that dare explain." Men are now dying not to win a negative "peace" but to bring about a more lawful, and therefore a more intelligently dynamic, world. Knowledge does not necessarily breed affection, nor affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: What They See in the Papers | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Exercise are designed to toughen and build up every part of every student's body, and to do this most attention has to be put on the abdominal muscles, Samborski, who is Director of Intramural Athletics, explained. "All of us use our legs and arms every day, but it's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Muscles Rippling, Students "Look More Like Men," Cajoling Conditioners Crow | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

I had a little dog (a wire-haired fox terrier) named Delia. She was brown and pawed the air. I poured all my love and affection into her training, working night and day so she would pass the tests. Her size was against her to begin with. She weighed 28...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Eden has never shown a preference for easy jobs. Britons have not forgotten that he fought for an international system of collective security, now recognized as a prerequisite for any lasting peace. Aware that in Britain all gains are made by compromise and that men who stick by their principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Harmonies & Discords | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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