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Word: lamps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt them wheel me under the lamp," he wrote. "I felt a succession of little pricks in a wide circle ... on my head. Then . . . one long horizontal incision at the back of my neck. This did not hurt me either. I felt soft gestures, as if my flesh were being opened and folded back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patient's-Eye-View | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...colonies in California, Laguna is the artiest. Once a year, Laguna citizens put berets on their heads, hang palettes to the lamp posts along principal streets, welcome thousands of visitors to a ten-day cultural spree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Laguna | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Lamp is Low (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion), another tuneful theft from the semi-classics-this time from Ravel's solemn Pavan for a Dead Princess. Tommy Dorsey has made a dancier version for Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Record | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Mother Martin did not. She used to carry the coal-oil lamp around at night while Glenn climbed about his contraption, gluing fabric on the wings, varnishing the struts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Illustrators | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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