Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marin and Hopper, perhaps the two most outstanding contemporary artists in America, and also see that true art involves something more than the skillful manipulation of a brush. The collection serves as a fitting close to an unusually fertile season for the museum which has presented during the past year exhibits of etchings, watercolors, and oils taken from almost every important period in the history of art. it is to be regretted that more students do not take advantage of the many exhibits, permanent and temporary, which are housed in the galleries of Fogg each year. A university museum should...
Letters in recent issues of your lively magazine [TIME, April 24, et seq.] have protested against sending men under 40 or over 40 to fight in the next war, that there may be no dearth of fathers. Excellent! Let the next war be won by women past 45, that absolutely useless class! Having been for the last decade a widow in this group, fighting at the front would be a welcome diversion...
...maroon, convertible sedan with the top down and the bullet-proof windows up, the King & Queen, having greeted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and notables at the dockside, were whisked up the winding road from Wolfe's Cove to the old city over a circuitous route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic!" In point of fact...
...brilliant past means anything, Jim Lightbody will be a fitting successor to Haydock. Son of an Olympic runner, Lightbody broke his back in high school and seemed shut out of track for life. As a Freshman he had already overcome this handicap when he made the Oxford-Cambridge meet; for two years now he has been unbeatable over the 440 and 880 distances...
...hearing for Bridges, the C. I. O.'s maritime leader on the West Coast, had been held up pending disposition of a like case by the Supreme Court. The Court decided that past membership in the Communist Party did not subject the defendant, Joseph Strecker, to deportation...