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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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A parade of workers and government employees, who had been given the afternoon off, wound its way through downtown Havana last week, now & then raising a polite shout: "Empréstito, si! [The loan, yes!]." They were signifying their well-organized approval of President Prío Socarrás...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Emprestito, S | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

When passers-by saw it the next morning, they gaped and gasped: the father's massive figure was unclothed. Within a few minutes a crowd of several hundred had gathered, and somebody called the police. The cops elbowed their way through the onlookers, took a horrified look themselves, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Totem & Taboo | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, 61, who thought he might be able to take it easy once the nine-month-long Communist trial ended last month, had met a slight delay: he tried to read 50,000 congratulatory letters, arranged for acknowledging them. Last week, after taking in the Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elegance | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

In 1939, Foujita abruptly turned his back on all that and took off for Tokyo; he was afraid the Germans would bomb Paris. When the Pacific war came he was conscripted to paint combat pictures at $33.76 a month. Among the most popular was Raid on Pearl Harbor, done from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elegance | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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