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Word: hards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Close, hard fought, and erratic football is the rule in the Inter-House League these days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Top Adams 6 to 2; Dunster Wins | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...virtue of the Graduate School design is that the regularity will cut building time and labor, costs far below average, making construction problems simpler. Standard spacing will even make partial pre-fabrication possible in some cases. As far as hard cash goes, the designers estimate is about $3,000 on each student, whereas the undergraduate Houses cost over...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Functionalism Is Keynote of New Graduate Housing Center | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...burden of the suffering falls on the audience, which is subjected to all the knitted brows, quivering nostrils, tossed locks-and tantrumacious bad manners-that cinemaddicts have learned to recognize as signs of artistic genius. The Red Shoes is such a spotty piece of movie craftsmanship that it is hard to believe that it is a major effort by Britain's crack moviemaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...pure, subtle and powerful as the whole of his Treasure of Sierra Madre-i.e., as good as the best in movies. Perhaps a fourth are ornate salon stuff (gnarled trees in silhouette, etc.), often mistaken for Art. The rest is high-grade Hollywood sound stage. It is not hard to believe that one cameraman is capable of all three kinds, but it is hard to understand why a man capable of the best could willingly put them all into one picture. That is the kind of movie Johnny Belinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...hard to see why. The Sky Is Red is a perfect reflection of the numbness beyond despair felt by a people still suffering from the results of dictatorship and defeat. Indifferent to the larger issues of the war, Berto writes only about its limited consequences in the lives of a few children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Ashes | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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