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Word: appears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cumming, another economical writer, appears, as usual, in black face. Like Ratte, with a few well-chosen references, he reveals the plight of his narator--a young Negro boy who is intensely concerned about being misunderstood--without, however, making his subject appear abnormally sensitive. One of the story's principal virtues is Cumming's knack for conveying the feeling of the woods in a very few words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

...what appeared to be a violent protest against existing weather conditions, the elves and gnomes which frequent all gases, particularly neon, have incapacitated the "S" in SHELL (right), giving the motorists on Memorial Drive at Magazine Beach a vivid reminder that the day of judgment is not far off. Repairmen have been alerted and are expected to appear on the scene tomorrow to disenchant the "S". If the weather or the magic spell is too potent, the sign may remain in its unholy predicament, and, as the station's proprietor observed, "The (S) hell Oil people will be mighty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What in Shell Happened? | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

...should have ample time to meditate on what that one ill-tombed caption cost him: his substantial savings, the paper (which he held under a Trujillo-granted loan of $640,000), an income of around $50,000 a year, and a $60,000 villa. Bootlicking El Benefactor, it would appear, is a remunerative business-while it lasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: One Little Word | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...arguments the defense had built up during the trial. He declared Kamin's grounds of conscience legally insufficient. He said he had no grounds to disbelieve Senator McCarthy's testimony at the trial that Kamin had been informed sufficiently of the reason he had been asked to appear. He did not feel that Kamin's constitutional rights had been infringed...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Judge Aldrich Frees Kamin On All Contempt Charges | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

Wrote Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Nothing about them suggests the milieu in which they were born ... in the midst of war and destruction Franz Marc's gaze turned inward . . . from crystalline lines he lets the Birth of a Cicada come into being. Animals appear: deer, horses . . . and the feather-light body of a swallow . . . Already far away from presenting the material, the visible, the drawings try to grasp a spiritual reality and make the objects transparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gentle Expressionist | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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