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Word: penned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since 1853. Full of brief, "intimate" instructions for every type of standard operation from appendectomy to tonsillectomy, their manual is also crammed with scalpel-neat pen-drawings by Medical Artist Mildred Codding. As important to the authors as the practical instructions for "unfledged surgeons" are the simple, poetical introductory chapters on the "science of gentleness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gentle Science | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Although a Dartmouth graduate of only a few years, Fuller may well be considered eminent in his chosen filed, sensationalizing his alma mater and primarily the Indian football team. From his pen comes the torrent of Big Green propaganda we read in the Boston Press...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...pen name used by a number of people who have clever words they would like to put in some one else's mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Totalitarian Democracy | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...recurrent mysteries in the art world. Often enough they end in disappointment. What made Carlo Noya's picture sensational is that, although there are many Leonardo drawings, experts concede only 13 (some only four) da Vinci paintings to exist. The British Museum has one of the best of numerous pen studies for a Madonna with the Cat. In Britain, too, is the one man whom Italian scholars need to consult before pronouncing their find authentic, Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, director of the National Gallery since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Light in Los Angeles | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Lady Wenlock was so absent-minded that once when she was hunting a pen, she found herself looking for it under P in the French dictionary. Deaf, too, she carried a silver ear trumpet that looked like an entree dish. When she turned it toward an Italian duke at luncheon, he gallantly filled it with green peas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puckish Proust | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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