Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Speaking Pictures. Also conspicuous in the show were the works of Gerard Sekoto, the only Negro artist included. Sekoto was born 35 years ago at a little hill station in the Transvaal where his father was the local mission teacher. As a child he had sketched on the sly, gotten occasional encouragement from schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded...
More Fish them Boston. By now it is probably the third biggest city in the U.S. -more than 2,000,000 people live within its far-flung city limits, more than 4,000,000 in its metropolitan area-and it has gotten pinker, more sprawling, more like a Los Angeles promoter's dream with every advancing mile...
...educators had made it clear that they were thoroughly fed up: the hunt for subversive influences on the campus had gotten out of hand (TIME, June 27). Last week, two more college presidents cried halt...
Many a businessman, looking for Government contracts, has gotten lost in the bureaucratic jungle of Washington. But as every businessman should know, there are guides, known as five-percenters, to lead bewildered contract-seekers out of the swamp in a hurry. The guides, usually former Government officials or ex-Congressmen, know or claim to know the right people. For a retainer and 5% on the gross of any contract obtained, "influence" will be put to work. Few officials will admit that such influence exists, although it is part & parcel of the Governments patronage system. Only last month Defense Secretary Louis...
...around London are tending to be come more & more a back lot for Hollywood." Almost all the major made-in-England films now coming up, Critic Lejeune noted, have a hands-across-the-sea flavor. Among their players (some in British-sponsored movies): Fredric March Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Valli, Ingrid Bergman, Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich Jennifer Jones, Robert Montgomery Douglas Fairbanks...