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Word: clutches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buchholz Gallery, visitors saw one of the best cross-sections they had ever seen (38 carefully chosen pieces) of the sculpture of democratic Europe. The period it represented was a short one. The earliest piece, a bronze by Auguste Rodin, was dated approximately 1876, the latest, a clutch of slim-limbed nudes by French-born Charles Despiau and German-born Gerhard Marcks, just antedated Hitler's conquest of Poland. Some of this sculpture-figures by Aristide Maillol and Ernst Barlach-was stockily reposeful, others-Lehm-brucks' bulb-domed, emaciated Head of a Thinker, Picasso's elongated Standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Democracy on Pedestals | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...birds. They protested loudly when the men came near, refused to get off their nests until the men were close enough to snap pictures (see cut). The nests, about a foot across, were of grass lined with soiled white down. There were four creamy white eggs in the average clutch. The men took two goose specimens and five eggs, started back down the river. Last week the specimens and eggs were safe at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa, and it was announced to the world that the breeding ground of Ross's goose, sought for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Scabby-Nosed Wavey | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Mersa Matruh, the outpost to which they had decided to retire, with tip & run tactics, whenever the drive from Libya materialized. To south and east, the Italians had already wiped out French Djibouti and British Somaliland, so as to clear the rear. This gave the Italians a strong clutch on the Red Sea's mouth and western coast. In order further to dominate that sea, through which British supplies and reinforcements were still running last week, the Italians were preparing to hop on to Britain's Perim Island, in the narrow Straits of Bab el Mandeb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Winter in the Wilderness | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Oldsmobile's line is the widest in its 43-year history, includes wheel bases from 119 to 125 inches, engines from 100 to no h.p., prices from $852 to $1,575. A little more streamlined, new models look much like the '40s. Hydra-Matic drive (no clutch) is optional on all models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...them! They have lost their heads. They have eaten of the insane-root. You will live long enough to prove this, for a quarter of a century from now on we shall know about this war what we now know about the last war. We are in the clutch of imperialism--and the professors have been fooled again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

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