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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an Indian boy walked into the Victoria Times office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when boats upset on rapids. White men do not never learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Word from the Wise | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...time of preparation by penance and prayer. Said Mrs. Fred J. Vollmar, chairman of the St. Boniface Archconfraternity, last week: "We must become more Christ-minded about Christmas . . . We have given prominence to a worldly Santa Claus-who has no resemblance to St. Nicholas-and have entirely left out the thought of the birth of the Savior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ in Christmas | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Detroit Free Press last week Daniel Carbone, a shoemaker, telephoned a strange story: three months before, a well-dressed couple had left 16 pairs of good-quality shoes with him to be repaired, had never returned to pay his $17.05 bill and claim the shoes. Sensing a poignant mystery, the Free Press next morning frontpaged a photo of the mysterious shoes, wondered whether the owners had perished in the S.S. Noronic's ill-fated voyage from Detroit to Toronto (TIME, Sept. 26). But by nightfall the Free Press picture had produced the footwear's flesh & blood owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: If the Shoe Fits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...some "Golden Rules for Conductors" the maestro admonished crustily: "Remember, you are not playing for your own fun, you are playing for the enjoyment of the audience . . . Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your eye; when you hear them at all, they are already too loud . . . The left hand has nothing to do in conducting an orchestra. Keep it in your vest-pocket and use it only occasionally to hush an instrument. . . Don't conduct with your arms, conduct with your ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Bugs & Spice | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Faulkner's book suggested that the North, East and West should leave Southerners alone to work out their own redemption for mistreating the Negro. The Faulknerian message is left out of a movie that could have stood almost any sort of clear social comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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