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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shakes a metaphor like a wet dog shaking himself dry. A man is broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

There is no point to this essay. It might, however, be comforting to reflect on to fact that Harvard still plays ball for fun. And, by the way, people here speak hushed tones when mentioning the courage of Harvard in scheduling Army. They wouldn't dream of it at the University of Minnesota. Not even when the crop ripens. (The 56-year-old Bierman yesterday asked to be relieved of his football coaching duties, the Associated Press reported. He said his request was not prompted by the poor record of this year's team, which has lost six and tied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/14/1950 | See Source »

Standings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Says Mr. John: "I don't know any grocer or anybody else who wants to stay small. They all dream about building something bigger. The whole country's growing-our cities, schools, labor unions, everything. I don't see how any businessman can limit his growth and stay healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Circle & Gold Leaf | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...mental blocks, but landed hard the next morning in New York and exhaustion. Benzedrine and booze revived him, and he started to work out his story line for Love on Ice with his young co-scripter, Shep Stearns; they had only one day left in which to dream up the whole plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bottom of the Glass | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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