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Word: mam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fasting for Impurity. Bernarr and Mary traveled a good deal. It was on a trip to France that Bernarr composed the mam 'hymn" of his "religion of happiness," which he taught his disciples to bellow to the tune of Jingle Bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...cries and rages, complains of a sense of paralysis in her painting arm. But her pictures have no moods. They are as studied and frigidly precise as geometrical progressions: brilliant, carefully plotted blocks lines and dashes done in endless variation with a few primary hues. Pereira's mam effort since the war: painting simple patterns on layers of fluted and rippled glass, then placing these one on top of the other so that the refracted light jabs through as a dazzling, and sometimes eye-straining, spectrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Villagers in Manhattan | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...diagnosis and detection of cancer. All of these things were on his mind at the airport. Said he: "You see how very important work is, especially work you want to finish. You cherish friendships more than ever. You recognize hat affection, good will and love are the mam things. And family, the ones who are so close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Main Things | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Possum Time | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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