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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orange hue the grove assumes, The Indian-summer days appear; When that deceitful summer comes Be sure to hail the winter near: If autumn wears a mourning coat Be sure, to keep the mind afloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Marshall on through weeks of stalemate on Germany. If so, the Russians were wrong. Clearly, Marshall did not intend to sit through another version of last winter's Moscow Conference, which accomplished nothing but the propagation of international ill will. Britain's Ernest Bevin was of like mind. He said last week: "No one can accuse me of being impatient . . . but there comes an end." If the conference does not reach agreement, "I am not going to be a party to keeping the world in chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Rattle of Bones | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Katina Paxinou as the hot-blooded mother.* Michael Redgrave, as the unweaned son, illumines a tortuous, hazily written role with great imagination. Raymond Massey, as the statue-warm father, acts with variety and sensitivity. Leo Genn may not be the romantic Adam that O'Neill had in mind, but he is still entirely plausible. There are several minor quibbles but only one broad complaint to be lodged with the moviemakers. The film is far too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...most engaging of the evening's offerings. A combination of deft music and engaging dances makes such songs as the lifting "You Were There" the strongest features of a convincing fantasy. Coward, writing for Miss Lawrence, is consistently excellent as he always is when he has his players in mind. It is unformatted that he does not play opposite her as in the original production, for although Graham Payn is a competent imitator of Coward, Coward performing Coward still seems to be the happiest arrangement all around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...predecessors in "The Trilogy of Desire." In concluding what Parrington called "a colossal study of the American businessman," Dreiser tells those familiar with the earlier volumes little they do not already know about Frank Algernon Cowperwood, his hero. As for the reader with a casual interest in the business mind, he would do better to sample "The Financier" or "The Titan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/19/1947 | See Source »

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