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Word: notted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But faced with a lien of $61,221 on back federal income taxes, Joe could well use the $300,000 or so (before taxes) a comeback fight might bring him. Charles was willing, if not enthusiastic. Said he: "Well, now, I'd like to see him stay what he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still a Good Man | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Withered Roses. When the stone lids of the sarcophagi were slid off and the pinewood caskets opened, the assembled scientists made an astonishing discovery: 24 of the bodies were completely mummified and in an excellent state of preservation; other bodies, although skeletons, were still held together by their ligaments. How...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

There were other revelations, said the enthusiastic Spaniards. Bobbin lace, formerly thought to have been unknown before the 16th Century, was found in the tombs, as was cloth from China. Until the opening of the Las Huelgas sarcophagi, Spanish historians had not been absolutely sure whether Enrique I of Castile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Strapping (5 ft. 9 in.) Actress Channing herself represents a triumph of miscasting. She can be a very funny female indeed, but in Blondes she suggests the football-playing "heroine" of a varsity show more than the deceptively fragile Lorelei. With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Merry Christmas | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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