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...February, forsythia bloomed on Long Island, Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Funny Winter | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

That was the last real peep out of the Western powers. Soft-spoken U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon could hardly be heard across the conference table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Cook & the Potatoes | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...excellence of "Naked City" lies not in the enormity or the intrinsic bloodiness of the crimes, but in the adroit juxtaposition of familiar surroundings with unusual events. Of course it is an escape picture, in which the audience is allowed an exciting peep behind a city's facade of respectability, but the treatment, so much better than in most films of this class, counterbalances the natural and inevitable weaknesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naked City | 4/6/1948 | See Source »

Second Look. In Manhattan's 71st Regiment armory, lingerie models gave buyers a peep at the industry's new look in lingerie. It was exciting enough to start wags chasing models (see cut). But the new taffeta ruffled petticoats (some designed to show an inch below dresses), teddies trimmed with a six-inch embroidered net design, and haremlike ankle-length pantaloons for sleeping were serious business to the lingerie industry. Thanks to them, it hoped to boost its sales up from 1947's record high of about $430 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Poet Laureate Robert Bridges once fired a snooty spitball at all highbrows who peep into the boudoir of Art and try to "explain" her naked mysteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peeping Toms | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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