Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Searching for more than casual information for English A themes, Gates last month copied Harvard's signature from a law paper, and brought it to Dr. Abraham A. Roback, a local handwriting expert. Roback was an instructor of Psychology at the College over 25 years...
...casual eye, most tapestries look like faded, overelaborate rugs hanging on a wall. But these 200 were different. They were the handsomest show Manhattan had seen in years. Lent by the French Government, and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, they covered an acre of wall space. Before the exhibition closed this week, 142,545 visitors had seen it. On the last day, crowds were still waiting to get in when the gates closed...
TIME'S determination to tell the news, whenever it can, through people, is as strong as ever. "Human interest" is not only the most interesting kind of news, it is also the "truest," i.e., the nearest approach to the way events actually happen. In casual conversation, people sometimes reveal more about the news than in set speeches or ponderous books. Millions of words have been written in the past 15 years about the personality of Franklin Roosevelt. In March 1933, the week he was inaugurated President, TIME printed a brief quotation from his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. It summed...
...wrath, TIME chose a picture of him looking angry; if, in the story, he had reason to rejoice, the picture smiled. Years ago, Edward Steichen, master of photography, made this comment: "Depending chiefly on one class of material, press portraits, and in spite of an apparently casual and insignificant display, these portraits have become one of the most dynamic features of the magazine...
...February, with most of the lists back. Mrs. Ryan begins taking student applications and arranging for interviews with prospective employers. Receptionist Dorothy Hots, who handles most of the termtime "casual" business like blood donations and baby tending, also helps with the summer program...