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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week she and Imogene went out together. Charlie met them at Amend's Tavern and they all went back to Imogene's, where they had a heated argument. Focus of the argument: Charlie. Wrathfully Betty Milton jabbed an ice pick through Imogene's screen door. Imogene, just as wrathful, rushed out and hurled a beer glass through one of the Miltons' windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Incident in New Canaan | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...concert, starring Oscar Levant, at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium on July 12. That will be exactly eight years and a day after Gershwin's death-a rather odd-figure anniversary until one considers that it coincides vith the first-run Broadway showing of Rhapsody in Blue, a screen biography v hich Warner Brothers filmed two years ago but released only last week (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gershwin Everywhere | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Lieut. Thomas Dudley Har mon, A.A.F.. 25, survivor of two plane crashes, hero of one movie (Harmon of Michigan}, one book (Pilots Also Pray}, many a Michigan football game (All-America, 1939, 1940); and Elyse Knox. 27, blonde screen starlet: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Sharon Kristan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...machine consisting of a gunner's cockpit placed in front of a movie screen which simulates aerial dogfighting so well that seasoned veterans have crawled out of it dripping sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: It's Fun | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Bishop Manning's first ambition is to tear down the reredos, a carved stone screen built behind the high altar in 1909. Removing it, he said, will make the west-east interior view "the longest unbroken vista in Christendom" (one-ninth of a mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unfinished Cathedral | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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