Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bangkok one morning last week The Dwarf awoke in an ugly mood...
...paintings, drawings and prints, gathered together by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, showed Klee at his wittiest, his most charming, and most terrifying. Landscape with Accents and Little Dune Picture had the skilled naivete of antique Chinese drawings, while Lady Demon, Country Dwarf and Mask of Fear were like small windows into a skeleton-filled closet. Exercises, a few squiggly lines portraying an amazed dog watching three uncomfortably contorted human beings, was as sharp and prodding as a Thurber vignette...
...field of plants, Professor Paul C. Mangelsdorf has recently developed a custom-built corn for New England gardens and named it the Dwarf Harvard Hybrid. The corn, now on the market, is ideally suited to New England gardens and climate. Mangelsdorf's hybrid corns are proving revolutionary for the world's food supply...
With prospective fortunes to liven interest (a gas-company worker once took a flutter for 10? and won $295,180), crowds at the games dwarf the crowds that turn out for U.S. sport events. When Scotland played (and beat) England two months ago, a throng of 150,000 crammed London's Wembley Stadium to see it done...
...Blue high command has succeeded in exploiting the "seven dwarf" underdog angle--reports of "dismal" and "discouraging" practice sessions have been filtering out of New Haven all week...