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Word: les (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Gyra is an abstract figure study, a Tellurin is a landscape (with inner tensions). The most ambitious painting in his current show is Les Cosmogones (see cut}, a vast, wildly spinning composition with a hell of a lot of tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Aerogyls & Tellurins | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Lunch over, Harry Truman showed another side of his character. Spotting newsmen waiting outside Les Biffle's office, he shook hands all around and asked: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night. I felt as if two planets and the whole constellation had fallen on me. I don't know if you boys pray, but if you do, please pray God to help me carry this load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Thirty-Second | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...Gare d'Orsay reception center, a bas-relief of women with arms flung wide illustrates the legend Salut les copains (Welcome, Pals). Under a so-foot-high triumphal arch of crossed Allied flags are other bas-reliefs, each with a two-word legend illustrating the new-found (and realistically French) freedoms; the second word in each case is librement (freely) and the verbs are: jouer, travailler, parler, aimer, dormir, manger, boire and respirer (play, work, speak, love, sleep, eat, drink and breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Back from Bondage | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana saw him ten years later, he was a tragic spectacle. Johnson still looked very young, "but pale, haggard and trembling. He stood by the fireplace, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosopher's Friends | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...brilgue: les táves lubricilleux Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave, Enmimés sont les gougebosqueux, Et le mômerade horsgrave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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