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Word: might (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, said Painter Sample, it was "both a consideration of the painter's intentions and his realization of these intentions." Abraham Rattner enlarged on Sample's statement by saying that a work that was exceedingly well painted might very well be omitted if the jury felt that it was not genuinely eloquent or expressive, or if the technique chosen did not appear to have been honestly felt or arrived at by the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jumping on the Jury | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Developed by California's Altec Lansing Corp., it does not hide a speaker's face, does not boom when he gets too close, is omnidirectional and can be hidden anywhere on a television production stage. The fact that it can be hidden in a boutonniere might make it useful to sleuths-friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Inventive Mind | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...possibility. In a letter to Author Merton, Waugh said: "I believe there are thousands of men and women in the world who are temperamentally suited to monastic life but have no effective vocation simply because they are ignorant of the very existence of religious life. Indeed, a thesis might be developed to show that the health of society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full of people ... who had no business there, and the present revolution is being made by people who ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mountain | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...After receiving their free Sealed Book, some of the ad-answerers would go on to become members of AMORC (the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) and pay dues of $2.50 a month to learn "through alchemy, metaphysics and cosmology" how to be happy. But many a faithful U.S. Rosicrucian might be jolted by the picture of the San Jose order painted in a lawsuit filed by the widow of the cofounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Happy Life | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...show ran $5,200 over its budget and was a wretched failure. McCrary knocked over an easel loaded with placards which never did get put back in proper order; gremlins got into the balopticon (magic lantern), and the audio-control system went haywire. A less tenacious man than McCrary might have been crushed by the reviews (Variety: ". . . fantastically bad"; New York Times: ". . . involved hocus-pocus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Standby | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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