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Word: canvases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But no chess game, De Koff also points out, was ever half so athletic. Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Swordsmen | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

12:57. Faust checks his props, takes his seat by the fireplace, opens a book on his lap. Backstage voices are hushed. In the darkness behind the study, the set for Scene 2 is all ready to be pulled into place: three sideshow stalls, a circular bandstand, the entrance to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backstage at the Met | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Died. Nicolas de Staël, 41, Russian-born French semi-abstract painter, who troweled slabs of paint on to canvas to create his famed, richly colored oils; in a leap from his third-floor apartment; in Antibes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

NICOLAS DE STAËL, 41, born in St. Petersburg, son of a Czarist cavalry officer, who paints in heavy slabs of color on the canvas (TIME, March 30, 1953), which he maintains is not abstraction: "I am trying to give as much as possible of myself with a maximum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: After the Sunburst | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

In the 135-lb. class, Peter Coker of Adams KO'd Eliot's Jim Smith in the second, after sending him to the canvas four times. Warren Bradbury of Leverett took a decision over Tom Howes of Dunster House in the 155-lb. class. Lindsay Fischer of the Bunnies lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Boxers Top Bunnies, 16-13 To Win Inter-House Tourney Title | 3/11/1955 | See Source »

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