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Word: danae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent Correspondent Richard Harding Davis to cover the Russo-Japanese War at $1,000 a week, uncovered phony medicines and phony politicians, fought for income taxes, woman suffrage and a host of other causes. It published Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy scenes. In 1919 the magazine was sold to Crowell Publishing Co. (whose predecessor firm had bought Companion in 1885), turned from art and exposes to cartoons and light fiction. Circulation tumbled, recovered under able Editor William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crowell-Collier's Christmas | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Because of the current political events in England, Gaitskell's visit will necessarily be a short one. He expects to arrive in Montreal, Canada, and then spend some time at Dartmouth before coming to Cambridge. The Labor leader will stay at the Dana Palmer House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH-TV to Broadcast 1957 Godkin Lectures | 12/21/1956 | See Source »

...Dana M. Cotton, placement officer at the School of Education, was reelected secretary-treasurer at the association's annual conference in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Dean Will Head School Group | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

...under the jurisdiction of the central control, it is largely autonomous with regards to most of the actions involved in mail-delivering procedure. Its area of distribution is the largest of all Cambridge postal districts, extending from the Charles River to North Cambridge and Somerville, and from Belmont to Dana Street and Putnam Avenue...

Author: By Frederick W. Bryon jr., | Title: 'Cambridge, 38' Withstands Snow, Rain and Students | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

...acting is concerned, the picture is almost a one-man show: it belongs to Charley Grapewin, who plays Jeeter. While some of the other performers, such as Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, are better know today, Grapewin's part overshadows theirs both by its size and the capability with which it is handled Alternately sly and humerous, his Jeeter is a captivating old man who in one monologue--a prayer in which he warns the Lord to hurry up with delivering help or beware of the consequences--achieves something approaching magnificence. And Grapewin's performance, unlike some other aspects...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Tobacco Road | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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