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Word: livings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, such a group can only be successful if it has good audiences. To encourage this, the directors have scaled seats from $2.70 to 60 cents. Students with special cards (which can be obtained at the CRIMSON office) can get a 30 percent discount. This means you can see live actors, in an extremely lively and intelligent play, for 45 cents. As "Heartbreak House" is scheduled to close, tomorrow night, this will give you only time to see it twice--not a bad idea...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...Archbishop said that it is "possible for Russian Christians to live quietly in a Marxian state, accepting its economic and political system, but rejecting its philosophical ideology." He did not try to answer the old and terrible question: How quietly can a Christian live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dangerous Rival | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Blood on the Moon contains some of the oldest trappings in horse opera, but the performances make the difference. The heroine looks as if she might really live on a ranch, and like it; the hero has plausible motives for shooting when he shoots. They contend with the villains against handsome outdoor backgrounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Adding up the payload for a single westbound flight, Pilot Stewart finds on his bill of lading: the blonde, who is a truant from her honeymoon, an escaping embezzler (Porter Hall), a G.I. and his bride, a corpse, a shipment of whitefish, some live lobsters and a cigar-smoking chimpanzee. Before the flight has ended, the passengers have jounced through a forced landing (made partly because of weather, partly to pick up a few rustic gags from amiable Farmer Percy Kilbride, who keeps the New England accent flying in darkest Oklahoma), and reached several forced decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...life has been a variegated one. Under a conviction that I shall not live to give its details to the younger branches of my family, I have concluded to put upon paper a few incidents that may perhaps afford entertainment and instruction to them when I am no more. It is my wish that it may not be read out of the circle of my family, and that it may never be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the Doctor Said | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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