Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high time that TIME and TIME-Reader Shishkin get time straight. Assuming that both refer to the Christian Era ("the penultimate year of the 20th Century's fourth decade," TIME, Jan. 1 and Jan. 15), I have spread my fingers and counted...
...With the W" article (Dec. 25) you refer to the "War Between the States." Can this be a Hollywood inspired designation for the Civil War? Or what is its origin...
...operation, he wrote, is simple: Public health workers refer sick and needy cases to local offices of the Health and Medical Association. After they join (and agree to foot, in the hazy future, the doctor's bills paid for them), the migrants are shipped to nearby physicians, or clinics, if any. Any registered physician may join the Association's panel. His fees are fixed according to schedules determined by the Association's board: a group of seven doctors and social workers from FSA, the California State Board of Health, the State Medical Association. Dentists, druggists and hospitals...
...Vose Galleries, located on Boylston Street near Copley Square, are presenting an exhibit of paintings by Iacovleff, former head of the Boston Museum School of Art, who died recently in Paris. The pieces, unfortunately, are neither titled nor numbered so that it is difficult to refer to specific paintings which exemplify certain aspects of the artist's style, Iacovleff is an interesting painter; his color is dirty, his subject matter is dull, and his rendition is poor. Nevertheless, he is interesting. For he is an outstanding example of an artist who didn't know where he was. His style seems...
Wags in busy, whirring Seattle joke about the woman who told a census taker: "I have three sons, two living and one in Portland." Easy-going Portlanders scorn their frenetic rival to the north, refer with somnolent pride to their "city where it's always afternoon...