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Word: knitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour play to 2½ hours, eliminated such roles as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, transposed speeches or even whole scenes as he found necessary. He called the result an "essay on Hamlet" The Manchester Guardian called it "a film which is much more closely knit and, indeed, much more dramatic than any stage Hamlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Better Than the Play? | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Berke, captain of the '51 swimming team, has more than equalled Smith's performance. Key man on a well knit team, Berke came to the College a first rate backstroker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captains Pace Yard Squads As Yale Finales Loom Close | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

Democratic defeat. The fact was that the Democrats had fallen on their faces when they had every reason, and every precedent, for staying on their feet. They had tripped, almost absentmindedly, over Henry Wallace's highly emotional appeal to the very poor, the huddled minorities, and the tightly knit Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: They Voted Against Us | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Harvard of 1873 was a fairly closely knit community, and it boasted of many "campus characters," men who spent their whole lives in the service of the college boys. Some of them, such as William Emmons, pushed handcarts around the Square. Emmons sold a beverage called "egg pop," whose recipe nobody ever discovered. An amateur politician, Emmons had his harangues printed, and sold them with the drinks...

Author: By Norman S. Poser, | Title: College Was Rural, Self-Contained 75 Years Ago as Golden Age Began | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...comes to a thoroughly bad end, it adds up to a fairly good evening. British Playwright Hutton, who has hit on a rather fresh and valid idea for a thriller, may be a bungler of plots, but he is a master of tension. Best of all, a well-knit British cast keeps on acting deftly even after there's little left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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