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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In spite of his shyness, young John did well at school, and at 15 was ready to enter the University of Vermont. There he fell in love with learning, borrowed $500 from an aunt and set off for the six-year-old Johns Hopkins University for more study. "Don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Perpetual Arriver | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Hell | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

At 68, Leger has lost none of his fire. Cluttering his little Left Bank studio are sketches for a book to be called The Circus, costume and set designs for the new Darius Milhaud opera Bolivar, and studies for a memorial to the U.S. war dead which he hopes to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fire! | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

The presses were waiting; this week thousands of Texans in & out of Wharton County were eating up Sheriff Lane's rambling, ungrammatical but engrossing tale. A low ceiling, reported Pilot Buckshot, had forced him to turn back after his take-off in the "People's Airplane," the $5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Science Fiction Fan Hoen particularly liked the cover by Artist Hubert Rogers, applauded top Science Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Adventures in Time & Space | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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