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Word: lushly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world Sibelius' music seemed at first either cheap or grimly forbidding. Critics who called him cheap pointed to the bombastic Finlandia or the lush Valse Triste which he wrote as incidental music for a play by his brother-in-law. Forbidding he was, in his way. He dovetailed into no set school. His scoring seemed classical but he used short spare motifs which he often left undeveloped. His pride in his symphonies was to scorn all claptrap effects, all hints of sensationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Finn | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

When the Harvard football team trips out on the lush turf of the Stadium next Saturday, it will present a somewhat more gaudy appearance than it has for many a moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gridders Don Gay Plumage This Fall To Startle The Public Eye | 10/3/1934 | See Source »

Ambitious Mr. Conway launched an expansion program which more than doubled the size of the company, pushed it west to the lush packing shores of California. He even gobbled up the third biggest unit in the field, U. S. Can, and with it Oscar Caperton Huffman. Mr. Huffman was not anxious to sell in 1928 but one day he turned up in Mr. Conway's Manhattan office. Mr. Conway began a long speech about all the benefits of a merger but he was cut short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Canned Profits | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Wyoming was warm, wet and flat 125,000,000 years ago. It was a tropical land dotted by lakes and marshes, webbed by languid rivers. The water was alive with huge reptiles, sleeping, floating, wading, swimming, browsing lazily on the lush water plants and swamp grasses. They were sauropods- long-necked, long-tailed, bullet-headed dinosaurs, weighing 15 or 20 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

Born in Zanesville, Ohio, he was educated in public schools, took a degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a few years in Europe he started working in Manhattan under the late, lush Stanford White in his famed firm, McKim, Mead & White. His first job was a pedestal for a St. Gaudens statue. A year later he opened his own office in St. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death of Gilbert | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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