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Word: seeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know. Five months ago he started painting, now does nothing else, often works in his studio for 20 hours at a stretch. It wouldn't surprise him in the least if his fellow-refugee and longtime friend, Haile Selassie, should drop in for a chat and see what he has accomplished since the old Addis Ababa days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint-Gunner | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...animals, nudes and caricatures of Hitler looked as if he had dipped his gat in the paint pot and then let fly at the canvas. But with metropolitan art critics, the astute, silk-toppered Artist Sir William Rothenstein, the Duke of Kent and bevies of Mayfair socialites swarming to see his pictures, and with the whole show bought by Scottish Art Dealer Andrew G. Elliot, the bushy-headed, self-styled ex-gangster pal could well afford to smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint-Gunner | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...exports; from Japan came 6.5% ($126,828,000) of U.S. imports. Small as this was in the U.S. total it represented 16.6% of Japan's foreign exports, made the U.S. her No. 1 customer. By toting up this million-dollar-a-day business, Japan could see that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Economic War? | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began doing business two months ago in Chicago, reported to Salesman Carpenter that its output the second month was 66% above the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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