Search Details

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


Usage:

Last week, for the first time in the U.S., the visible by-products of Beckmann's war work went on view in a Manhattan gallery. His fiery heavens, icy hells, and bestial men showed why he is called Germany's greatest living artist.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Seeker | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Why did some 3,000,000 Americans thus search the heavens so avidly? One guess was that war and The Bomb had hit the nation right in its lunar plexus. But people were still asking the same old questions: "Will I succeed?" "Will I get married?" "Where is William?" Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Will I Succeed? | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Victor Hugo or Maupassant might have written the life story of La Piaf. Two policemen assisted at her birth in a Montmartre street 30 years ago. When she was two and a half, she was struck blind-according to her. She was cured, at seven, when she and her grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Paris Sparrow | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

A Senate subcommittee with eyes cocked at the political heavens summoned Chief of Staff Eisenhower last week to explain the demobilization snafu-and incidentally to air their own views. They reckoned without Strategist Ike Eisenhower. Before the week was out he had passed the buck right back to Congress.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - DEMOBILIZATION: Operation Eisenhower | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

How seven Chungking patriots, despite the jeers of the Chinese press, organized a "Praying-for-the-Rains Dragon Corps" to save the crops of Szechwan Province. They shouted, beat gongs, organized public prayer, and, shortly, the heavens obliged.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | Next