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Word: eyeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parallel to, say, the Dow theory of stockmarket behavior. Some stock traders look to the Dow theory to tell them when to buy or sell. Stalin and the other Marxists wanted a theory that would tell them when a "break" was likely in the Imperialist Front. They kept their eye glued to "the material life of society." The big thing in it, they found, is "the means of production of material goods." The means of production "determines" two things especially: the kind of social system that prevails, and "the evolution of society from one system to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Care & Feeding Of Revolutions | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Manhattan market place. Marsh, a retiring 50-year-old chunk of a man, spends whole days at his studio window on the top floor, surveys the square below through a telescope. The caved-in bums, bundled up news vendors and bumptious, pneumatic-looking shopgirls that catch his eye are swiftly translated into notebook sketches and filed away in a steel cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Make Mine Manhattan | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Goodrich's own view of his wife (he discusses her at length and objectively, in her presence, while she listens meekly) is that she needs a firm hand. He watches over her, keeps an eye on her business and social engagements, sees that she gets enough sleep, discourages overwork. She rarely stops acting (or rehearsing) when she leaves the set. During the shooting of The Snake Pit she practiced her screams so convincingly at home that soon all Hollywood was abuzz with the story that that man Goodrich was beating his wife. To disprove it, Goodrich finally took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati. For most of the ten rounds, Ezzard buzzed around Baksi like a bumblebee around a bull. He kept stinging Baksi with lefts & rights that didn't seem to hurt much-though he opened a bad cut above his left eye. At 2:33 of the eleventh round, his face a bloody mask, Baksi muttered: "I can't see. Stop it." The referee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Foe for Joe | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles Times is not in the habit of running to the public for advice on how to run a newspaper. But last week, in an eye-stopping half-page ad, the Times confessed to doing just that. It was taking the public's "advice"-as expressed in numerous complaints-on how to improve its eight-week-old offspring, the tabloid Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Clouded Mirror | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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