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Word: glasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please-no more," pleaded Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, who found his mail loaded with paperweights after the newspapers ran a story last month saying that he collected the things as a hobby. Among the whatnots he was sent by well-wishers: a weighted mahogany gavel, a glass basin filled with coins, a porcelain pig, a bronze nude in a bronze bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Cambridge Art Association is holding its annual exhibition and Christmas sale at the Association's basement gallery at 37 Palmer Street. Open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Tuesday and Saturday mornings, the gallery features Cambridge made oils, prints, water colors, and stained glass medallions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Art Club Holds Christmas Sale | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Sloth slept with his eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sin in Frames | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Next step is to combine the three colored images in the eye of the viewer. The combining is done with two "dichroic mirrors": plates of glass with one surface covered with a thin layer of a colorless, transparent substance. Because of the special way in which this combination affects light of different wave lengths, each mirror reflects only one color. The other two colors pass right through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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