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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cared? Painting, Churchill decided, suited him down to the ground. "There is no subject," he wrote, "on which I feel more humble or yet at the same time more natural . . . Painting a picture is like fighting a battle ... If you need something to occupy your leisure, to divert your mind from the daily round . . . there is close at hand a wonderful new world of thought and craft, a sunlit garden gleaming with light and colour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Joy Ride in a Paint-Box | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...movie theaters in Manhattan and Chicago, the lovely woman screamed & screamed. For a moment, the scene looked exactly like the old-fashioned thrill shot that moviemakers call a "cliff-hanger." But what moviegoers were actually getting was a breathtaking glimpse of an abyss in the infinite mountains of the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...into a chair and studied his Christmas Gift List. Friends and Relations--and now the University. Ten dollars he was giving it. Of course this hadn't been the first time, since he had done the same thing every February, April, and September he could recall. He didn't mind paying the fine now so much, because everyone else was also giving presents. It was just that gifts like this were usually made by alumni, and although Vag had been around a long time, he wasn't quite . . . but that was an idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

...backboards. "That's one of the reasons why we're starting Prior," he pointed out yesterday. "Bill looked good clearing the boards against Navy and maybe he can get us started on the right foot against Dartmouth." Barclay added that the Crimson wasn't in the right frame of mind Saturday at Annapolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Faces Indians | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

When the SPCA said that disposing of the owl was against God's law, I presume they had in mind Isiah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Owl | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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