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Word: portrayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwest showed signs of vigor. Hamlin Garland had begun to portray farm life as something more, or less, than an idyl. In the Far West lived the gnarled misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce, writing creepy Gothic tales that pointed back to Poe and forward to Faulkner. But in general, Brooks acknowledges, it was a time of decidedly minor craftsmen, a dry season between fertile ones in American writing. The turn came as the old century flickered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand American Tour | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...inconvenient to move the Alps into someone's office, but this Alpine calendar provides a different scene from these picturesque mountains at every flick of the page. The scenes, in full color, portray the icy, aloof, majesty of the range with sharp clarity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

...inconvenient to move the Alps into someone's office, but this Alpine calendar provides a different scene from these picturesque mountains at every flick of the page. The scenes, in full color, portray the icy, aloof, a majesty of the range with sharp clarity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions... | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

...inconvenient to move the Alps into someone's office, but this Alpine calendar provides a different scene from these picturesque mountains at every flick of the page. The scenes, in full color, portray the icy, aloof, majesty of the range with sharp clarity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...correspondents wounded in Korea), who flew to San Francisco for a talk, in Japanese, with Premier Yoshida. Like some other correspondents helping with the program, Gibney has been working with a movie camera grinding away by his shoulder. TIME Cartographer Bob Chapin got busy on a major map to portray graphically the military and economic forces now operating in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 10, 1951 | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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