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Word: langs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thriller so lambent with smolderings of conscience and with religio-psychological sidelights that one critic compared it with Dostoevski. In the film version these murky glimmerings are gone, and the thriller's glow is thus considerably dimmed. But it is a tensely directed (by Fritz Lang) and finely photographed show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Unlike the fairy stories of Hans Christian Andersen, Laboulaye, Lang and Perrault, Grimm's Fairy Tales (as they became known in translation) were not primarily literary creations. The by-product of philological research, their collection began with the chance discovery by Jacob Grimm of a selection from the Minnesingers in the library of his law professor. Scholarly Jacob and his gentler, gayer brother Wilhelm, who had shared the same bed as children, the same room as students, from that moment dedicated their lives to tracking down, deciphering and recording their country's folklore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Dreams & Blood | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Ernie Banker has applied under pressure for a steady job as Cowie Musician. Harry Magnuson has twice gone into ecstasies over the railroad recording. Company 3 waits with bated breath for a hearing. Bob Lang claims to have a better imitation of that head-on collision on the New Haven line. On his report Fritzy Arsulich advises converting all freight cars into transport planes for complete service...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/19/1945 | See Source »

...There is so little about him that is reminiscent of his predecessor's eloquent and influential liberalism that many wondered last week if the appointment meant that the Church of England was swinging back from the brief near-socialism of William Temple to the Toryism of Cosmo Gordon Lang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 99th Archbishop | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...Choosing an Anglican Archbishop is almost entirely a Government function. The Prime Minister consults with the Archbishop of York and other churchmen (in this case including Lord Lang. Temple's predecessor), recommends one of their suggestions to the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 99th Archbishop | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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