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Word: flesh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solid Flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Vasili Kivlenko, who spent part of his five years at Magadan "transit" camp. He recalled: "All those physically weak were doomed; they soon fell sick and never recovered . . . Scurvy was widespread and the tents were particularly foul-smelling from scurvy and frost wounds-sweet from rotting flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Bill of Particulars | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Auschwitz, he said, "We could tell by the color of the smoke whether those being burned had been starved to death or still had flesh on their bones. If they had starved, the smoke was black. If it was white, they still had flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...diluted love potion is not the only hoary element, though. For some reason, the third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...Acres of Flesh. As This Week was a supplement in such family journals as the New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sunday Puncher | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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