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Word: m (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairmen Christopher M. Martin '49 and Waldo H. Heinrichs Jr, '49 of the Social Service Committee, and N. Conant Webb Jr. '49 sent out 1800 tickets to the various settlement houses and agencies, and expect that two-thirds of these will be used. The show will be limited to kids over 12 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Organizes Concert and Party for Christmas Season | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...Manhattan, M-G-M likes to avoid projection-room screenings and show its films to reviewers at "sneak previews" in regular theaters. The tactic seems designed to drown out critical judgments with loud sounds of audience approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Criticism Hurts | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Disclaimer. In Little Rock, Ark., Ernest Horton Jr. paid a $25 fine for shooting a goose out of season, but insisted: "It was just an accident . . . I'm really not that good a shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...less than four columns when Poet Stephen Vincent Benét rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Familiar? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...away, I'm thinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More . . . | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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