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Word: brush (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inexperienced. In Los Angeles, a young miss, on a vacation from Seaside, Ore., as a reward for not smoking until her 21st birthday, threw a cigaret butt out of a bedroom window, started a brush fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Miao (wonderful). "Wonderful" painters have no idea what makes them so. Their work is moving but it is apt to look "strange, queer, and have neither reason nor resemblance. This is the result of having brush (pi) but not thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elusive Cloudland | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...divine). The "divine" painter penetrates "with his thoughts the nature of everything in heaven and earth, and thus things flow out of his brush in accordance with the truth of the motif." No artist can be "divine" who is not something of a mystic. Some Chinese critics-understandably-think the "divine" is as much as any artist can hope to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elusive Cloudland | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Newark manufacturer announced a handcarved, gold-handled, genuine badger-haired shaving brush "for the best-kept man." Cost $3,350, tax included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...does not permit a brush fire to destroy a forest if a little digging will correct its spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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