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Word: beaconed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repertory players, who have made the former Joy Street livery-stable their workshop for the past few years, board communally in a house on nearby Beacon Hill. Out of the modest proceeds of a box-office that depends on playgoer contributions (50c minimum) come first, production expenses and second, food for the Company; salaries are largely wishful thinking. "Which means," says Norman Mailer '43, in charge of publicity, "our diet is somewhat irregular...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: PLAYGOER | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

After Repeal, when Asher broke with Paul V. McNutt's local politicians, his noisy cafe, the "Wig-Warn," lost its liquor license. When HOLC foreclosed on him, he broke with Roosevelt and started X-Ray ("A Beacon for Taxpayers and Honest Labor"). In its five years its circulation has wavered between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mosquito | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Intended to reduce the sky-line glow which was considered a potential beacon for enemy submarines, the dimout had been widely criticized as inadequate, and Cambridge officials were said to have planned more drastic action here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Requested to Pull Shades as Dimout Measure | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

First in line will be Harvard's armed forces who start marching at noon after assembling on Berkeley Street between Beacon and Boylston and who will be reviewed along the parade route by Governor Saltonstall and Mayor Tobin among others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNITS MARCH TOMORROW | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

Although his work is not as fully represented, the two pieces by Howard Turner '41 are sufficient to place him in the first rank of the exhibitors. His watercolor view over Boston housetops captures all the warmth and richness of Beacon Hill brick against the late afternoon sky. Carl Pickhardt '31 has four lithographs in the show, all very simply and very powerfully executed, especially the "Pieta" and the "Christ at Emmaus," with its Grecolike faces, and minimum of light areas. His work suggests the influence of stained-glass window design, with heavy lines blocking off areas of black...

Author: By A. Y., | Title: COLLECTIONS & CRITIQUES | 4/7/1942 | See Source »

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