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Word: formful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of Fascist art censorship, 43-year-old Viani had never dared show his radical variations on the human form before 1945, although for 16 years he plugged away at them in the privacy of his Venice studio, smoothing their voluptuous plaster curves with wire brushes. At the end of World War II, he brought his work out into the open for the first time, won recognition at the big Venice Biennial show last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anything Goes | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Ready to follow these gentlemen to the mound in any or all games, lefty Joe Page won 13, lost eight, in a return to the form that gave the Yankees the 1947 world championship...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Reynolds Starts for Yanks In Opener Against Dodgers | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Lefty Joe Hatten (18-8) may start game three on the basis of September form...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Reynolds Starts for Yanks In Opener Against Dodgers | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Radioactive Dust. The instruments that recorded the Russian explosion were many and varied. Atom Bombs that explode in the air form mushroom clouds of intensely radioactive dust that billow high in the atmosphere. The dust particles, so small that they fall very slowly, are carried long distances by the wind. The radioactivity of the test explosion at Alamogordo in July 1945 was detected over Maryland, 1,425 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Striking Twelve | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...turned out, Cervantes found himself-and the form that became the modern novel-quite by accident. He started out to write a piffling burlesque of the popular chivalric romances of his day; Don Quixote became a masterpiece almost by mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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