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Word: blur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconsistencies can never blur the uncanny accuracy with which "Tomorrow" has predicted the future. What other group of prognosticators could have said, on January 23, a full six weeks before Russian doctors battled with Stalin's fatal illness, that "Russia will be weakened by bloodletting...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: Getting the Inside Dope | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

...compatible" color system reproduces in black & white on conventional receivers; a noncompatible system produces only a blur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Non-Compatible Blues | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

Unless the Key slows the pace a bit the Week-end will become, as last year, one big blur of indistinguishables. In that case, we might better look for our bathing beauties on some far off beach, when the Key springs its lovelies at the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-College Blast | 2/25/1953 | See Source »

This technique of the Big Blur is not new. Ignorantly or deliberately, it has been a favorite device of deep-dyed conservatives ever since the emergence of the Communist menace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Robertson's Fund | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

...audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only a jumbled blur, the infancy of the Tri-Optic method is most evident...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Tri-Opticon | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

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