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Word: daydreamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West had almost lost itself in a happy daydream of satisfaction as Western Europe at last seemed to move toward a sound defensive posture. But last week a cold blast from the Far East brought it back to reality with a start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Three Giants | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

However, it must be admitted that Molesworth has some qualities potentially fatal to the revolutionary: a tendency to daydream (he sees himself as an armored knight refusing mercy to a kneeling headmaster) and a touch of defeatism. On the subject of how to get out of divinity instruction, for instance. Molesworth says: "You could try being let down into the class dressed as an angel. You then sa to the master Lo who are these cherubim and seraphim who are continually crying. He repli Form 3 B. You then sa Lo they are not angles but angels with the xception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skoolsfor Skandal | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Like most Americans, Engineer Hans Goldschmidt knew that one of the quickest ways to make a fortune is to invent a new gadget or machine. Unlike most Americans, who never get beyond the daydreaming stage, Goldschmidt made his daydream come true. His invention: a home power tool that could be used as a lathe, vertical and horizontal drill, sander, saw-and do almost anything else needed for woodworking. Last week Goldschmidt's streamlined new model of the "Shop-smith," the do-it-yourself boom's most versatile power tool, went on display at a do-it-yourself exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Inventor in Menlo Park | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...scriptwriter, scraped together $8,000 and turned out The Gentleman in Room 6, a 20-minute horror fantasy about Hitler. Still on a shoestring, he went to England, with a seven-man company produced The Stranger and A Prince for Cynthia, a haplinesque story of a stenographer's daydream. In Paris, on a visit to a Left Bank nightclub, he saw a showing of 16-mm. colored slides drawn by local schoolchildren, promptly bought the set to make Martin and Gaston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Subjects | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is a nobody with an all too mortal longing to be a Somebody. Fired from her job in a Manhattan garment mine, she heads for Central Park to have a daydream of grandeur. Wistfully she gazes at a big, empty billboard on Columbus Circle, imagining how her name would look there in 12-ft. letters: GLADYS GLOVER. What happens next is a hilarious example of dumb-blonde logic. Since her name would look wonderful on the sign, and since she has $1,000 in the bank, why not rent the sign and put her name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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