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Word: brushing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush of their own choosing, who will resent this invasion of an erst-while informal field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BANANA SKIN? | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...nature of the work is purely voluntary and there is no thought of digging up a genius now and then. The children do just whatever they wish in three hour periods each afternoon and on Saturday mornings. Each one is given a large paint brush and a biscuit tin full of colors and told to go ahead and paint. The idea is simply to give the children a chance to express themselves creatively in any way they want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

Shrewsbury, sprinter; White distance man; and Mayersohn, backstroker, fill out the list of men who are generally in the line-up as positive starters. Sharp, breastroker, and Brush, in the distances, will have to work hard this year for starting assignments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardest Meet So Far Will Be Provided by Boston Club Swimmers | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...Wingate Todd, Professor of Anatomy at Western Reserve University and Chairman of the Brush Foundation, will deliver the annual Charles Albert Brackett Lecture Wednesday, January 26, at the Medical School. He will speak on "The Record of Metabolism Imprinted on the Skeleton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Todd to Deliver Brackett Lecture at Medical School | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...ideas of opponents of the New Deal which was calculated to delight all those who already agreed with him and titillate to the point of apoplexy all those who did not. His formula was simple: to turn popular economic beliefs upside down and apply tar with a brush so broad as to hide the occasions when he begged the question and otherwise offended logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: New Dealer's Hornbook | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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