Search Details

Word: fountain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...that which sciences were later to develop. It gave a new emphasis to abstract analysis of God, evil, suffering ... It made God a formal rather than a creative absolute, for it used him as an explanation of the universe and not simply, as in many other religions, as the fountain of all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: This I Know | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Fortress. In return for Ruckman's wrist watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Matter of Honor | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Admiral Daniel signed six copies of the agreement-two each in English, Chinese, Korean-with six different fountain pens, gave the pens to Panmunjom oldtimers. † A Communist correspondent at Panmunjom said that Major General William F. Dean, missing hero of Taejon, would not be returned in the first exchange, because he is in excellent health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS: I Agree ... | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...White House, the magnolias were in full bloom and a fountain, surrounded by orange tulips, splashed beguilingly. Gardeners gave the lawn its first spring trim, and the smell of new-mown grass wafted through the open windows of Dwight Eisenhower's office. The President, like most Americans, responded to the beck of spring, tried to fit a little fun into the pressing routine of work. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Magnolia Time | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...future, he hopes to attend the Business School and continue competing on an amateur level so as to be eligible for the 1956 Olympics. If this fails, he can fall back on the myriad of coaching jobs offered him in the last few years. These include posts at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, the University of Virginia, and a tentative overture from Penn State...

Author: By Walter W. Bregman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | Next