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Word: canvased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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High, high above the streaming, teaming asphalt, at least 18 inches above the ground, now stands the officer of the day. On all four sides of him are bright, white canvas sides. On one of these are emblazoned the magic words testifying to the powers which sanctioned the construction of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantabridgian Bluecoat Marooned on Elevated Roost in Sea of Traffic in Square--"Capsule of Law" is Indifferent | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

Because fighting Spanish bulls have refused to splinter their horns against humanely steel-armored horses in the bull ring (TIME, Mar. 7), five new types of rubber, canvas and fibre armor were tried out, last week, at Madrid. Bull horns gored deeply through all but the fibre armor, killing four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 50-50 Fight | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

"In my last report", wrote Professor Forbes, "I referred to the experiments in the X-raying of paintings carried on by Alan Burroughs, Class of 1920, formerly of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This work has been continued through the year with most satisfactory results. About three hundred pictures have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORBES DISCUSSES PROGRESS OF FOGG | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

Doctors who dared no virtuosity in their professional practice showed last week at the Academy of Medicine, Manhattan, how they toyed as artists in their leisure hours. The hand that swabbed a tonsil also daubed a canvas. Lancet or engraving tool fitted equally well the hand of a surgeon; probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor Artists | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

The Nestoroff, the woman is called. Before and after Giorgio Mirelli she has had many men. Her proclivity for throwing her very beautiful body away on gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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