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Word: layered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave the blushing bride $25,750 worth of prizes and "art fellowships." Served up in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design, "Paintings of the Year" (267 of the 5,034 entries) was a better show than its two Pepsi-Cola predecessors, but it was nevertheless a massive layer cake of second-rate work. On top lay a thin icing of successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pop! | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Last spring, however, his obligation to relieve Los Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Misunderstood Man | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...locusts came on. Ahead of them young wheat waved green; behind them the earth lay yellow-brown under the spring sun. At night the invaders ceased their rustling and grating, huddled in great clumps on whitewashed walls; in some villages they blanketed every house and path with a layer three to four inches thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Beleaguered Island | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

After an eruption has released the pressure, the top layer of the molten rock cools and hardens, sealing the volcano temporarily. The cap can contain the pressure for a time-depending on the peculiarities of the individual volcano-when it cracks open again with a rush of burning gas. Molten magma boils up, whipped to a froth by the gases. After the pressure has been relieved, the eruption subsides, the cap forms again and the cycle of eruption is complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Year of Fire | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Lionel Barrymore, after acting it for years, hit 68, and Hollywood hit him with a set of monkeyshines worth 70 (see cut). It was a three-layer celebration: 68 years in the world at large, 50 in the theater, 30 in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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