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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known what to do about it, he said, "the entire outcome of the war might have been different." As it was, the document took a month traveling leisurely up through channels to Field Marshal von Rundstedt's headquarters. "By that time," said Huebner, "the plan made a nice souvenir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Nice Souvenir | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Eliot, 60, got a nice hand from one of his elders. "I think we all ought to be glad," observed Somerset Maugham, 75, "to have lived long enough to read his poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Change of Scene | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...seemed to have no real character. Was it nothing but a "facts factory"? Tyndall, who had come to Toronto to be warden of Hart House, wrote to a friend back in New Zealand: "I can't seem to make up my mind about this place. It [presents] a nice intellectual problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Novel Approach | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

From the time she was eight, and singing small solo parts in a little church in a suburb of Athens, she had heard nice things about her voice. The directors of the Athens Conservatory heard her sing when she was 15, gave her six years' free training. In 1936 Bruno Walter gave her work at the Vienna State Opera, and she has been on the Vienna roster ever since. Last October she returned to Athens, sang Carmen eight times in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Velvet | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...rest of the show is pretty to look at. The costumes, sets and dances are glossy and gay. But all this is hardly more than a nice silk lining for an empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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