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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic Adams,( Robert Frost said it all when he wrote that a poem "begins in delight and ends in wisdom. [It ends in] a clarification of life-not necessarily a great clarification . . . but in a momentary stay against confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stay Against Confusion | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Partly, this was insurance for Di Giorgio grapes. Now, if the price is not right, or frost comes early, the fruit king will turn his grapes into wine. But it was also an aggressive invasion of the wine business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: The Fruit King | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...wheat and barley. Their conservatism vanquished, the plants could be grown in almost any part of the mighty Soviet Union: e.g., a tomato was deeply shaken by a grafted liaison with a nightshade. It became so enterprising that, sown outdoors in May, it ripened its fruits before the early frost of Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Liquidate Heredity | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...eighth musical in which breezy William Gaxton and quavery, befuddled Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing, Louisiana Purchase) have been starred together. It may also be the last: they are considering turning over their respective talents to Hollywood. As a farewell party, Nellie Bly proves a pretty dismal frost; it even casts something of a blight on the guests of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Brrr. In Chicago, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Cold Snow made winter reservations at Sarasota, Fla. In Pearl Harbor, the Navy Yard supervisor of refrigeration was Jack Frost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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