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Word: pilings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the Easter Sunday (1937) murder of Model Veronica Gedeon had Manhattan newsmen had a really good chance to indulge in boob-catching antics like diagrams with X's marking spots. This one looked as if it would back the Gedeon killing on to the trash pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Murder at Retail | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...tackle the various incidents. Men were seen running towards Widener with buckets of water from the old well in an effort to put out the fire there. Tolstoy, Emerson, Taussig burned merrily in the basement of Widener bright enough to throw ample light on the crews clearing away the pile of rocks from the crumbled east wall which was obstructing the road. Massachusetts Hall suffered a hit from an incendiary bomb, but the fire was put out by the powerful stream of water furnished by the navy crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACKOUT MADE MORE REALISTIC BY INCIDENTS | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

...exquisite pains in pure color dabbing, Seurat was at first subjected to insulting remarks concerning "little green chemists who pile up tiny dots." But art criticism gradually caught up with Seurat (U.S. reviewers of an 1886 New York show were among the first to get the point), and today it is generally recognized that Seurat's method made possible a unique and exciting luminosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Secrets of Seurat | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...ancient. Virgil had lived in the city when he wrote his Georgics. Cicero had loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse-voiced women dumped their garbage from windows, chased their dirty children through the narrow streets. It was one of the great cities of the world. Its citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: City of Havoc | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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