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Word: faints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that what the Security Council is for? . . . Maybe you've just seen a faint sign that U.S. diplomacy is growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Reader Loewenbaum's sharp eyes failed to detect the faint signature, "C. Glinzer, 1867." The painting is a copy of Rembrandt's The Architect, and Copyist Glinzer chose to call it Archimedes (who was no mean architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...actors, the scientists were lauded with faint praise, but the picture, says Life Magazine, is "a remarkable piece of living history." The scenes were filmed here early last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Makes Screen Debut In Atom Film; Critics Rave | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

...other field of artistic appreciation is there more interest in stylistic identification than among jazz fans. They are always listening to ancient collectors' items and trying to determine the author of this or that faint one or two bar solo practically indistinguishable from the whirring of the needle rubbing over the worn-out shellac. But the particular creature being described herein is not merely interested in identification, he is obsessed with it. He lies awake at nght thinking up harder and cleverer quizzes. Even the Chemistry Department would blanch at some of the masterpieces he turns out. There are lots...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz jr., | Title: Jazz | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

...want to register a faint squawk about an item in TIME of June 10. In the piece about Yugoslavia it says "No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center." That just isn't true because we have several hundred a day at ours and the British a few less, and there has been no noticeable slackening of attendance in recent weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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