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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist-Playwright Anita Loos was making the most of a good thing. Having cleaned up over $1,500,000 on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a magazine sketch (1924), a first novel (1925), a play (1926) and a movie (1928), she had collaborated with Playwright Joseph Fields to turn it into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

But the foundation was not enough for the judge. When he heard that Jefferson Military College was just about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Storm in Mississippi | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Quartets and soloists from all over the South hopped onto the platform to take their turns at singing with piano or guitar accompaniment. In between, professional gospel song leaders led the audience in catchy religious songs not found in regular denominational hymnals. Most of the men, women & children attending had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gospel Harmony | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Next night, as their 90-match tour began before 13,357 fans in Madison Square Garden, Pancho got his first workout as a pro. He rocked back and let go with his big weapon-a hard, high-twisting serve. Kramer, tense and continually wiping the palm of his racket hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Work | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

The exhibition spanned a century, from the meticulous White Hall Plantation painted by Christophe Colomb about 1800, to a mist-shrouded painting of the river at night, done in 1905 by Frederick Oakes Sylvester. Between the two were a handful of great and near-great artists: naturalist-painters such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Century of the River | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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