Search Details

Word: neatness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Beneath the rain trees the shade was cool. Brown-skinned girls in neat blue middy blouses strolled among the bougainvillea, and in the glittering, pinnacled temples near by, yellow-robed Buddhist priests went about their ritual. In this peaceful setting, on the campus of a Presbyterian girls' school in Bangkok, Siam, 98 churchmen from 15 countries assembled last week to talk over a situation almost as dangerous and difficult as the Christians faced in the days of the catacombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crisis in the East | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Freshman coach Van Brower uncovered some fine material in Johnny Loe, lger Iben, and Bud Adams. Adams, a smooth performer, used a neat guillotine bold to pin his man. He wrestled at Easter, where Lee captained the team last year. Iben is an ex-Illinois State champ...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wrestlers Win by 24-7 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...well of a federal courtroom in Manhattan sat the tall man in the neat suit, motionless but intent. Beside him sat his wife. For the better part of three days last week the eyes of the pair-Alger and Pris cilia Hiss-were fixed on the man in the witness chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE: The Opened | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...world by Kali, the dread goddess who must create and destroy what she creates. Another effectively sinuous number of what was perhaps a spotty program was the story of Savitri, a charming legend of a faithful wife who cheats the Lord of Death of her husband in a neat pantomine...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: THE DANCE | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open. It has a student and faculty body of 90; cases of books from the U.S are pouring into its neat library. Tall, straight-featured, 21-year-old Yasukane Agarie, the library's temporary custodian, smiled: "This university makes us all happy and hopeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Forgotten Island | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next