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Word: canvasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coloring and slightly rococo composition, Artist de Caviedes brought none of his paintings with him when he hurriedly left Madrid a year ago, last week displayed mostly new pictures done in Cuba, including a starchy self-portrait (see cut). Hard for hard- shelled critics to resist were his cloudless canvases of Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians, Voluptuousness of the Rain. Artist de Caviedes left Spain because he had been painting murals in the Vatican just before the Revolution broke out and leaving the part of Spain he was in seemed...

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

Since then, bobbing up. for the third time, Frank Lloyd Wright has done per-haps his most amazing work. In 1929 he designed for Manhattan an apartment house of concrete, steel and glass more radical and inventive than any even proposed in functionalist Europe. This and a grander design for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Usonian Architect | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Over 1,000,000 citizens of Moscow left their homes one sub-zero day last week, turned out in a driving snowstorm to march across the Red Square shouting "Hurrah for Stalin!" They carried heavy wood & canvas floats and tall banners which they struggled to keep Moscow's wintry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 100% Victory | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

In the sixth round Schmeling started smashing Thomas oftener. Thomas' face dripped blood, but he fought back hard. At the end of the round he was groggy. In the seventh Thomas grew weaker under the pounding. Just before the bell, for the first time in his career, he finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schmeling Returns | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

The suit in which Max Nohl made last week's record dive was designed by himself, with the aid of Captain John Craig, a writer, lecturer and explorer who had invented a successful undersea camera. The suit is of rubber and weighs, with helmet, shoes and weights, 200 Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Dive | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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