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Word: photographs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter from his ex-Balkans traveling companion, the New York Times' William H. Lawrence, now stationed in Washington. Lawrence knows the difficulties confronting a working correspondent in the Balkans, having been refused re-entry to Rumania and Bulgaria a year ago. It was he who took the photograph of Low that ran in my March 28th Letter. Its locale, Slobozia, is in Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Harvard College and all graduate schools except the Business School use such allegedly discriminatory devices on their entrance applications as requests for an applicant's mother's maiden name, the birthplaces of his parents, and his photograph, the results of an investigation by the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bias Charged In University Entry Policies | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...magazine's cover was a color photograph of a Williamsburg garden, bright with massed red tulips, yellow pansies and pink apple blossoms. Better Homes and Gardens did more than picture the garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How to Get Readers | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...London Daily Mail gave a penlashing to the Birmingham Photographic Society for exhibiting the photograph Following the Master (see cut), "despite protests from all over Britain." The Mail charged that "1) it offends the religious susceptibilities of Christian people . . .; 2) the way the saw is being operated conflicts with all the modern rules of safe carpentry; 3) there were no circular saws in New Testament days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hammer, Sickle & Saw | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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