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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Templeton Smith easily outdistancing his 155 pound runner up in the Winner's Race with a time of 3:14.9 for the half mile, the first post-war sculling regatta came to a successful end under pleasant akies last Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Sets Pace In First Postwar Sculling Regatta | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

...have always enjoyed going to museums," said Gertrude Stein once, "because the view from museum windows is usually very pleasant." But on her rare visits to the U.S., Gertrude Stein had never made Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum one of her haunts: it had no windows in its picture galleries. Furthermore, with all its millions it had never purchased a painting by her favorite artist, Picasso. The chromium-plated, slick Museum of Modern Art, with windows as wide as walls, was more to her taste: it had done more than all other U.S. museums to publicize Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Museum without Windows | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Some girls save ticket stubs as reminders of pleasant evenings at the theatre, other people buy glossy brochures from lobby hawkers describing intimate facts and figures of dramatists, many Harvard men have only pleasant memories of time spent in Howardian delight; but the University knows no bounds in its mementoes of theatrical history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ghosts of Held, Lind Stalk Widener In Third-Floor Theatre Collections | 8/20/1946 | See Source »

...Sisters from Boston. A series of pleasant specialty acts, done up in Gay Nineties costume, by talented Troupers Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...went on to say that he was pleasant surprised at the outcome but that, is that people like peace and are uneasy "the only thing you can judge from this in the world today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finer and Sohn Disagree on Poll On World Order | 8/16/1946 | See Source »

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