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Word: devilments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin, Riding the Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons; and Commentator Quincy Howe is moderator on the current events programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: After-Hours School | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Said Patton in his best grand-fellow manner: "To get things going, we've got to compromise with the devil a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patton & the Devil | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...ride around the farm, The flies so numerous, they did swarm. One chanced to bite him on the thigh; The devil take the blue-tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Tail Fly | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Classroom Cinema | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...behest of this alter ego, the girl kills her fiance. Then she goes toward the chair almost eagerly, in her desire to liquidate her inner devil-while the lawyer-lover, an ingenious psychiatrist (Edmund Gwenn), and the governor of the state stand by, wondering what to do. The psychiatrist finally does plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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