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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amused to see that Edward L. Doheny's five grandchildren owned a company called Los Nietos, which, you explained, means "the relatives" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Nietos means exactly what Doheny apparently intended for it to mean: "grandchildren." The Spanish word for "relatives" is parientes-which looks like "parents," but the Spanish word for parents is padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Horrible or not, said Bacon, his pictures were not supposed to mean a thing. "They are just an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual . . . Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Survivors | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Post records mean noting when these two teams meet. There have been upsets by both sides, although a Harvard team never before has come up to the Yale game with just one previous victory to show for the season...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Stars, Changes, Tradition Feature H-Y Series | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

AMHERST, Nov. 14--If an Amherst senior flunks his math course it may mean he'll travel to Smith or Mt. Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Acts to Cut Car Accidents; Ohio State Police Speculate on Death | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...Command Decision; nonetheless such a wartime documentary as San Pietro makes it seem like a put-up job. Rarely catching the quick fury of infantry fighting, the camera shots are mostly the comfortable, carefully composed setups that are possible in a studio production, but in actual warfare would mean a quick death for the cameraman. Neatest trick: in most of the snowstorm scenes the snow sticks to everything but the G.I.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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