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Word: flame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing was just the thing for Actress-Dancer. Nora Kaye: in his emotion-packed ballets she could combine the best she had learned from her actor-father with the best of ballet. With the premiere of Tudor's Pillar of Fire in 1942, Nora came to full flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Actress on Tiptoe | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...more. He dresses up his crime stories with phony montages, demands a new angle for the lead story in each of his seven editions. He has a talent for tagging big crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid on the other." His solid matter includes such stories as Arizona's side of the current water squabble with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for the Boss | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Glare in the Sky | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...that the flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide. To guard and cherish it is our first interest, both spiritually and materially. The fulfillment of spiritual duty in our daily life is vital to our survival. Only by bringing it into perfect application can we hope to solve for ourselves the problems of this world, and not of this world alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: THE STATESMAN | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide," he continued before turning to the political aspects of his address...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Churchill Warns of Russian Plans in MIT Talk | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

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