Word: seene
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pension convention. Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
...Days a Week. At 75, Conklin's eyes are pouched and weary behind their spectacles, his hands are brown and gnarled. But he still has the same temperament, as can be seen in his championing scientific underdog Robert Hooke. Moreover, his step is firm, his voice vigorous, and his tall figure is neither gaunt nor flabby. He retired from the Princeton faculty and became a professor emeritus six years ago, but that is a sort of pious hoax. He is as active as ever...
...week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...
...every major school of European art up to the French Revolution. It was remarkable also in that no less than 88 works were being shown publicly for the first time in the U. S. Lent by great foreign museums or private and inaccessible collections, these could not have been seen otherwise by nine-tenths of the visitors...
...gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems less a miniature than a heroic picture seen through a small window...