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...book is a series of answers, more vigorous than pungent, to a series of questions he asks in his chapter heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Job | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...plucked titles for two former books: Defy the Foul Fiend and Tom's Acold. Author Collier, 39, has hitherto rusticated in Hampshire, England, now finds Virginia more suited for the cultivation of prose, verse and prize-winning flowers. But the label "whimsy" withers within ten feet of his pungent, multifoliate fancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoot Owl at Large | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...might be of interest for you to know that your excellent Science section has often helped me in humanizing otherwise dry scientific facts. The swing tempo and pungent phrases I give to these lectures, I must confess, are frequently inspired by TIME. And so, in addition to expressing my present appreciation, I wish also to thank you for the inspirations and many, many interesting hours . . . since the "very beginning of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Ordinary pungent incense smoke, said they, kills many kinds of nose and throat germs. Next best disinfectant is smoldering cardboard, damped with a two percent solution of potassium nitrate and dried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Odour of Sanctity | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Bartolc: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (Bela Bartok, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Benny Goodman, clarinet; Columbia: 4 sides). Hungarian Composer Bartok (see p. 45) wrote these paprika-pungent pieces in 1938, expressly for his good compatriot-friend Szigeti and Szigeti's good Midwestern friend Goodman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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