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Word: canvasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several members of the class are heading the movement, led by Curtis Clay '41 and Charles Clark '41, and are starting to canvas the various dormitories. They report that over two-thirds of the men so far approached have signed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Petition to Abolish Elections Schedule 22 Meetings on Concentration | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

But of chief interest to Philadelphians was a large canvas by Philadelphia's excellent, liberal artist, George Biddle, entitled Family Portrait (see cut). It shows the tousled artist in his famous grey-green suit, his brother Francis, lawyer and onetime chairman of the first National Labor Relations Board, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Philadelphia | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

In a dim one-story garage in St. Louis, Mo. one afternoon last week, ten men gathered to watch a fight-to-death between two brindle American pit bulldogs-four laborers, a streetcar conductor, two merchants, three smartly dressed gentlemen. In the centre of the garage, into which rain dripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dog Fight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

For more than a decade cinemaudiences have known short-tempered, pince-nezed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Through | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Last week at Manhattan's Walker Galleries six new paintings and half-a-dozen drawings by Curry encouraged head-shaking by detractors. The healthy springiness and sweep of the artist's well-known Kansas pictures appeared only in an oil-and-tempera panel of a prancing, black Percheron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Professor Curry | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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