Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their counterfeiting came to an abrupt end as police closed in on their iron hovel. Citizens of Osaka, hearing the pathetic story of Kanji and Yoshino, promptly raised and sent to the jail a sympathy fund of 18,000 yen-almost twice what the Ikedas had been able to paint for themselves...
Officials of Atlantic and Gulf ports have been calling the Seaway all sorts of names ever since it first came up. They paint tragic pictures of ocean commerce steaming to Chicago and Duluth, leaving New York, Boston, and New Orleans little more than ghost towns. On the other hand, big shipping firms stated flatly that they wouldn't use the Seaway; Senator Morse retorted that they would when they found it profitable. Senator Aiken of Vermont roundly scored the shippers, saying that "since 1936 they have had their hands in the Federal Treasury, clear up to the armpits...
Born rich (in 1832), Manet decided early on his lifework and never had to compromise. Art school, he complained, was "like entering a tomb," but he spent six years buried there, learning to paint studio nudes in various shades of tobacco juice. When he had all the fashionable tricks cold, Manet started traveling, copied masterpieces in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Italy. After such a training, he submitted his personal experiments to the Salon-Paris' high court...
...bureau, delighted with the beginning, offered the show to any other television station or network that wanted it. "It's just our sort of medium," said Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer. "Our problem has always been to paint the weather picture in words, and . . . they don't convey enough...
American newspapers paint a blacker picture of China than exists, Roscoe Pound, University Professor emeritus and adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Justice, reported today...