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Word: holing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quality of Durer's woodcuts. Later watercolors, however, are pure reflections of his own creativeness. These paintings, dating from 1946 to the present, repeatedly picture a twisted, angular, skeleton-like creature whom Grosz calls "the Gray Man." Other recurring symbols are an artist's canvas with a hole torn in its center, and a rainbow-colored flag torn from its staff. The series of water-colors, with its fantastic, degraded monsters and burning luminosity of color, is like a ghastly comic strip...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: ON EXHIBIT | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...Army lines he must have noticed by now the carefree fashion in which Princeton and Brown went through the center of Harvard's line. This means that Yale will send fullback Bob Spears into the line early in the game to look for a hole...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Eli Gridders Defy 'Injuries" for Harvard Tilt | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...antidote to grumpy Jesse's grim career. Author Horan fills out his last hundred pages with the story of another Pinkerton-pestered train robber, jovial Butch Cassidy, whose fun-loving Wild Bunch operated out of Hole in the Wall, Wyo. in the 1890s. Author Horan thinks Butch's story is "more colorful and daring," but most readers will disagree. Even debunked, Jesse James is still the feature attraction in any Wild West show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...what are they all doing here today?" queried the country-mouse as he peered up through a knot-hole in the planking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Gnawing Issue | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...calls. Between times she tried to figure out which of the hundreds of prizes she and the family should keep. When there was nothing else to worry about, well-meaning friends took up the slack by telling the Cohens that they would end up thousands of dollars in the hole after taxes and expenses had finally been paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Winners | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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