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Word: coloring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the myriad of detail demanded so much attention I had to try not to look at things. There was, and still is, no ugliness in things that can be seen. Even a wad of paper, wet and soggy in a dirty gutter, contains design and color that are not unpleasant to look upon. All things are beautiful . . . and I have found life is beautiful, too . . . Thanks to my good vision, we face a future of independent security here on our Pennsylvania dairy farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sight for the Sightless | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jaunty Sermons | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Fifty years ago chances are you would have left the field with a black eye; now you're satisfied with a popsicle. This is a classic with modernized, 1948-model color. Once it featured mustache cups and megaphones, raccoon coasts and pearl-handled umbrellas. Now it's got television, and Dixle Belle, and martinis--chilled--complete to the onion...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Gridiron Traditions Wax and Wane But Liquor Runs as Steady Favorite | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Mikado' in Color...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Weekend Sidelights | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...rating of its runner-up, ABC. Unlike the rest, it never took a rest and was on the air longest (14 hours 38 minutes), while collars wilted and whiskers sprouted. Like CBS, it had the enterprise to go to Washington, Philadelphia and Baltimore to pick up interviews and color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Much to Look At | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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