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Word: looming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking at the marble palaces built by U.S. financial titans, Novelist Henry James once described Newport as a "breeding ground for white elephants." Some of them now loom chipped and sagging in the long grass, but they still make an imposing trunk-to-tail parade down and around Bellevue Avenue. Their gates are generally shut to the public, but last week from paintings on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery, the curious could get an idea of what the elephants' insides looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Peace in Palaces | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Ells, Green Loom Large...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them UP | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

Crowed the Communist Daily Worker: "The Communist Party has become a strong, influential factor in the maritime industry. . . . More difficult struggles loom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Crow's-Nest | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...desert tombs, Bailey rediscovered lost weaving techniques (spinning had once been so ' fine-they sometimes used mouse's hair-that the shrouds ran thread counts of 250 to the inch). On burro trips in the 12,000-ft. sierra, Bailey uncovered the finesse of the ancient backstrap loom. In Andean fields, he rubbed wild-flower petals into his palm, watched the sweat precipitate streaks of true dye colors; he tested and proved 420 hues. In the Amazon highlands he found long-forgotten "workable" hardwoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Old Crafts in New Hands | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Following the Princeton game, the Crimson is slated to face Holy Cross, (which lost to the Chasemen. 10 to 5, last month), Yale, the Boston Athletic Association, Dartmouth, Brown, and West Point. Dartmouth and Yale loom as the strongest of the opposition; both have defeated West Point and each other, and both have had formal hockey all through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puckmen Oppose Princeton In Peace-time Style Tonight | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

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