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Word: scenically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penthouse pleases, Burlington plans to order a fleet of them for its scenic runs. Also in the Burlington postwar works: multiple level sleeping and lounge cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasure Dome | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Bamboo Music Hall. Major Clark Robinson organized the show in Assam while constructing a crude movie theater known as the Bamboo Music Hall. Robinson, a former New York scenic designer (Radio City Music Hall, the Roxy Theater), got the help of Private Al Roth as stage man- ager, gathered talent as he could find it. Props were made from whatever came handy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hump-Happiness | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...career in 1899 after a rival clergyman convinced him that his sermons should be published, shortly turned his talents to sugaring the moralistic pill with mystery, intrigue, romance. For 21 novels (15 movies), his manly men and womanly women fought cleanly, loved truly against a backdrop of raptly described scenic grandeur. The two most famed novels: The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), 1,250,000 copies; The Winning of Barbara Worth (1911), 1,000,000. Always nervous about spelling and sentence structure, Harold Bell Wright had no literary pretensions, once said: "I know that I am not so skilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

There are 29 tunnels on the highly scenic, two-hour Denver & Salt Lake run from Denver to Winter Park. Last weekend many young high-school couples from Denver enjoyed the tunnels on their way to the ski slopes. They were not using their jalopies, but the only reason was that their own particular black market in gas coupons had been almost wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Denver School Days | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Helping Hand | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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