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Word: colds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long suffered from tuberculous hemorrhages. One day in 1849 ne was visited by a former schoolmate, a priest, who found his face "cold as alabaster . . . Bubbling with wit and exceedingly kind, he seemed to belong only in slight degree to earth. But, alas, he was not thinking of heaven." Chopin told his friend, "I should not like to die without having received the sacrament, because I don't want to bring grief to my mother. But I cannot take it, because I don't understand it in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Immortality Has Begun | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...show his genius for color as well as his penchant for whipping cruelty and tenderness together into sexy, curiously unreal oils. His lamplit fisherwomen did not look like the sort that go near the water. Their hot peach flesh was set off by black garters and contrasted with the cold rose, blue and gold of the gasping fish. In the background of the composition, a dour old crone hugged a rigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Made in U. S. A. | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

After dark, while monks and nuns bustled through last-minute preparations, the Indians trooped into the mission plaza for a special movie program. Wrapped in striped blankets or sheepskin coats against the cold night air, they chuckled at a cartoon and slapstick comedy, tensely followed a hard-riding western. Next morning they were up before dawn over their breakfast campfires, but it was 10 o'clock before the celebration began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Michael's 50th | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Half-time found the Dartmouth cheering stands being serenaded by the Crimson band. It had been announced previously that the visiting stands would get the cold shoulder from the musical organization. They got the serenade, all right, but the big bass drum was left behind. The Harvards were playing it safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Skill Gives Harvard Rooters Weekend Victory | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Blocking, of which there was none too much. Though most of the missed blocks can be attributed to a baffling Dartmouth defense which clouded the offensive assignments, there were still numerous examples of blocks, especially in the open field, which were missed cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Defense Beat Crimson--Valpey | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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