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Word: putting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adenauer, the man of principle, is well served by Adenauer, the politician. With great political skill and iron tenacity, he has put his ideas into effect. He is undisputed boss of his party; when opponents arise who might challenge his position, he tries to win them over; if that does not work, Adenauer slowly undermines their prestige-sometimes by subtle press attacks, sometimes by carefully planted parliamentary questions about their conduct of office. The Bundestag elected him Chancellor by only a one-vote majority, but that did not worry Adenauer. In his 13-man cabinet, eight Christian Democrat ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Higher Loyalty. To Layman Smith, the trend is clear, present, and dangerous: in their anxiety to adjust the child to his environment, modern educators have actually forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should aim not at educating "the individual in his own right to become a valuable member of society," but at preparing him "for the realization of his best self in the higher loyalty of serving the basic ideals and aims of our society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Growth Toward What? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Society," raved one social chronicler, "staged a magnificent comeback, with blazing jewels and gorgeous gowns." It turned out to be an audience of distinction in other ways: nobody stood on his head nor did any of the ladies put their feet on the tables. Before the curtain went up there were ovations for arriving celebrities, Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, dapper little U.N. General Assembly President Carlos P. Romulo, Tenor and Hollywood Actor Lauritz Melchior ("Ahhh, I'm grateful to the movies. I am discovered as a glamour boy before it is too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fragrant Cheddar | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas. Among them were seven Tintorettos, twelve Titians, nine Rubenses, six Velasquezes, Dürer's big, bloody Martyrdom of the 10,000 Christians and Vermeer's marble-cool masterpiece, The Artist in His Studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Crush & Culture | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...seemed a harmless enough project. New York University Senior Harold Collins had offered to paint a mural in the university's La Guardia Hall with the title One World. Sketched in charcoal, Collins' World put N.Y.U. in a whirl last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Off the Wall | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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