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Word: paints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to paint a tree," he cried, "for heaven's sake make it look like a tree! . . . Now, you go to the Tate, and there in a room on the right you'll see a picture by Matisse called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Damned Nonsense | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...widow, tall and comely Margaret Chandler Porter had a tough choice. She could sell her husband's business, or try to run it-at the risk of running it into the ground. The business Claude Tillinghast Porter left behind when he died in 1946 was a wholesale paint firm (whose slogan was "The Painter's Friend"), the St. Louis outlet of his brother's thriving Porter Paint Co. of Louisville. Margaret Porter decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Painter's Friend | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard Square Wallpaper and Paint Company is transferring its hardware goods to what was until recently the Crimson Barbershop. It plans to open up in its new spot Monday or Tuesday, while the owner of the Crimson Barbershop is currently employed on the other side of Briggs and Briggs at the University Barbershop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Boylston Street Shops Seek New Square Locales | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...Building, The Crossroads, with Lenin uniting the workers, was "reduced to plaster dust." If that is the case, then it has been beautifully reassembled . . . for it can be seen in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City ... A sizable amount of "dust" to be moved about, or did Rivera paint the same mural again for our neighbors to the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...protective plastic coating on metal, leather and other shiny surfaces ($2.95 for the 12-oz. size); another releases a phfft! of chemicals to eliminate household odors ($1.89 for the 12-oz. size). This summer Bridgeport will have a bomb loaded with suntan lotion, and before long, one loaded with paint for touching up around the house. Also in the works are gadgets which might some day become landmarks of 20th Century civilization: spray bombs for perfume, hair lacquer and under-arm deodorants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Phfft! | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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