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Word: pencil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Museums. Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, of India, reminded his listeners that misunderstandings work both ways: "The barbarians think we are barbarians." UNESCO's Bernard Drzewieski, a pint-sized Pole, pointed up UNESCO's need: "In some parts of Greece and Poland there are 50 kids to one pencil." But Drzewieski himself had trouble with one small cultural barrier: he attributed the dream of "the new city of Friends" to "Walter" Whitman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: People--Just People | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

There was considerable doubt among Fred's superiors that he was worth the money. He spent most of his time with an inkwell on his chin, a pencil on his nose, and four or five books flying from hand to hand. When not so occupied, he would shatter the institution's leathern hush by bawling: "Say, did you hear about the man who dreamed he was eating Shredded Wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

When Sam got into the contracting business, he had had so little schooling that he could hardly read contracts. But that did not bother him. As he once said: "What the hell, I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-&-paper work." Now he can read well enough for his purposes: he just skips the big words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Big Digger | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Pointing out that devastated schools are so under-equipped that in many cases there is only one pencil for over 40 pupils, he contrasted these conditions with our own, where community appropriations are sufficient to equip students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Relief Leader Asks for U. S. Aid to Schools | 3/21/1947 | See Source »

...turn-of-the-century sobsister whose New York World stories on the Lizzie Borden hatchet-murder trial were the sensation of the day; in Manhattan. Close friend of Henry James, Mark Twain, she "discovered" Sinclair Lewis, bought his first novel (for Harper & Bros.), edited him with a heavy blue pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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