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Word: contem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smooth, literate collation of contem porary photographs, campaign posters, drawings and newspaper cartoons of Honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

However badly his description may fit some of poetry's modern navel-contem-platers, Britain's Poet Laureate at least has remained true to his credo. From the day in 1902 when his first slim volume of Salt-Water Ballads rolled off a London press, John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Ships & Wonder | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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