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Word: dowsing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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To the Chateau Frontenac, a U.S. physician named Dr. George Dows Cannon wired ahead for $12-a-day accommodations. He did not mention that he and his wife were Negroes. When they showed up, they were given a fine room overlooking the St. Lawrence. For three days they had no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Color Line | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Beneath "the surface placidity Philadelphians knew that the possibility of real race trouble was present as never before. Philadelphia has 270,000 Negroes, but it has no Harlem: the Negro sections are small, scattered pockets throughout the city. On the first night of the strike, in half-a-dozen sections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Philadelphia | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Last week 200 of Bruce's Government-owned water colors were put on exhibition at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. Nearly all of them were U.S. landscapes: from New England farmhouses to California hills. Many were by such capable U.S. artists as John Edward Heliker, Adolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lepers' Water Colors | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Put on exhibition last fortnight at Boston's big Museum of Fine Arts, this fragile limestone and plaster bust of Prince Ankh-haef of ancient Egypt had to be put in a special airconditioned showcase, because changes of humidity might crumble it. Every day Associate Curator Dows Dunham, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 45 CENTURIES LOOK DOWN ON BOSTON | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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