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Word: morely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week critics were arguing bitterly about his lounging plaster female with a breast like a precariously balanced baseball. Some liked it almost as well as Englishman Henry Moore's pachydermic pinheads or German Joan Arp's egg-smooth abstractions. Others contended that it could not be compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anything Goes | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Though far from the comforting rumble of the Third Avenue "el," Gardner is not likely to become homesick. Under the new law, 50 U.S. companies (chinaware, leather goods, textiles) have already moved to Puerto Rico and more are expected by boat and plane.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Call of the Islands | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

To capitalize on the "religious trend," the syndicates serialized the Peale and Sheen books, found readers still calling for more. Some papers, e.g., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, were planning to run one of the new columns in a top spot on Page One. Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tales Out of Sunday School | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Coosome Twosomes. Columnist Daly's busy day starts with a bubble bath and a double orange juice at 8 a.m., ends at the i a.m. curfew her mother usually succeeds in enforcing. Her column, seldom more than an hour's work, is larded with teen talk (e.g., "beau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Solid Side | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Margaret Clapp did not guess why the trustees were there, or why they stayed for lunch with her. That night she rode home on the subway, as usual, to her Greenwich Village walk-up and thought no more about it. But some time later her telephone rang. It was Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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