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Word: canting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called "Teacher" by her onetime pupils, Sculptor Putnam aimed to enlighten the layman and at the same time to provide a technical guide for students, especially girls, who seldom get a chance at apprenticeship in a sculptor's studio. By a happy omission of professional cant and a handsome use of good drawings and photographs, she puts across pleasantly much that a manual would desiccate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brenda's Book | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Cant's Send Cards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring School Agent Offered $25 to Official of University for Class Listings | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...difficult to decide which is grossest: the vapidity of the introductory apologia; the cant of the individual critiques; or (he high-handed inanity of the whole approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...them cant about decorum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Next April, with American Export flying a 15-ton Consolidated flying boat and the Italians a new Cant-Trieste seaplane, the two lines will start four months of survey flying along their joint line. Hoping for eventual Civil Aeronautics Authority sanction, the new partners are planning 60-to-70 passenger sleeper ships to be built in both countries from jointly drawn specifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Weather Eyes | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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