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Word: deepful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanging three deep on the sides of streetcars, celebrators sang "Pum pum pum" and the motorman punctuated the "meow" with a clang of his bell. Meanwhile, "There's a cat in the tuba" had become a solid part of Brazilian slang-a rough equivalent of "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Cat in the Tuba | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Village an independent republic, and his paintings look like dream-glimpses of such a republic-familiar, but never unpleasantly so. He crowded his painted world with plump ladies and children, always in the best of spirits and often partly undressed. And over them he sometimes succeeded in weaving a deep sparkle of color which few U.S. contemporaries could touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Determined Drifter | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Commercials for television are causing deep furrows in admen's brows. The perfect solution, advertising experts have decided, would be an overpowering combination of eye-catcher (four roses in a hunk of ice) and ear-filler ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Message from the Sponsor | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...sponsor all telecasts of the Giants' home games next summer (over WNBT), and wanted no free riders (last year the Gem Blades billboard in Yankee Stadium stole Gillette's show). This summer, Chesterfield will make sure that the Polo Grounds is adorned with a big Chesterfield ad, deep in center field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Message from the Sponsor | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...trade, Iba's stalling technique (after getting a slim lead) is known as "the deep freeze." The play is turned over endlessly about 15 feet outside the foul circle. The trick : make them come out and get you. When they do, they will leave a lane open for you to break through. Iba insists that the old way, which is his way, is scientific basketball: "Anyhow, it's not indoor shinny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old-Fashioned Way | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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