Search Details

Word: bathtubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...sent off to Rio to study, slept in a bathtub, learned a correct academic style that won him several medals. After that came a two-year scholarship in Paris. He angered his sponsors by returning to Brazil with only a single small painting. Portinari explained: "I can paint nothing at first sight. I must wait and let imagination work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sad Pictures | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Since February the Navy's eight-oar crew had practiced in a bathtub-sized inlet at Annapolis called College Creek. The creek, only 400 yards long, wandered around four bends and under three bridges. Navy's crew banked around the turns, used more rudder than oars, cussed the creek, and seemed to have become a crack outfit. On the broad Hudson at the Poughkeepsie intercollegiate regatta last week, the Annapolis crew proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anchors Aweigh | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Critic. In Santa Clara, Cuba, Maria Barbara Perez wearied of her common-law husband's bathtub vocalizing, beat him to death with an automobile spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...confirmation did not come the next day, nor for six weeks thereafter. Durham, who expected to go home daily, washed his linen in the bathtub. Kerschbaumer, who claimed he had a $40 million letter of credit to back up his bid, said he also agreed to pay the supposed mill representatives a bonus of $18,000,000-at around $62 a ton-for distribution among mill executives. Still he could not close the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Daisy Chain | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Mayor Earl Riley of Portland, Ore., home from a visit to San Francisco, got a visit from San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham, who dropped in to sympathize. Riley was abed with three busted ribs after a skid in a San Francisco bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: City Hall | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next