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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...group with a respectable air force. The Israelis flew planes bought through an agreement with the Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field and arrived in Israel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior, Ex-Pilot Tells of Israel War | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...oxygen. The fields were poor and the mechanics skilled only in automobile repairing. Besides a single fighter squadron which never had more than 11 planes or 16 pilots there were only a few bombers. Never were more than four planes were off the ground, and some days not even one could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior, Ex-Pilot Tells of Israel War | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Yale, Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton always have strong teams, according to Ulen, and this year they'll be even stronger, judging by last year's swift freshman aggregation from these schools. Brown and Columbia are expected to be considerably better than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Teams Hold Early Practice for Hard Schedule; Ulen Fears Dartmouth, Yale | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...this movie obviously had their eyes on the hugely successful Linda Darnell-Paul Douglas section of "A Letter to Three Wives." But where the prototype gave the actors a chance to achieve high comedy in a highly original situation, the follow up is perfunctory, routine, and yields few laughs even to such an accomplished team...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

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