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Word: shaded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early movies showed light and shade. Human eyes see a great deal more: they are sensitive to color, and are also rangefinders. When both eyes look at the same object, they "toe in" slightly. The brain measures the converging angle, and from it, estimates the object's distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: HOW REAL CAN MOVIES BE? | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Classic & Sound. Ike has been playing bridge for more than 25 years, ranks as an expert just a shade below tournament class. His game was once described by Ely Culbertson as "classic, sound, with flashes of brilliance." His favorite bridge partner, NATO's General Alfred Gruenther, is one of the few military men who have long been regarded as better than Ike at the game.* After one crucial hand, in which they were soundly set, Partners Eisenhower and Gruenther mulled over the game play in an exchange of letters that went on for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: White House Bridge Player | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass shade fitted for electric light), a phanerogam, the original model of Emmons' "Pelvi-phore," a keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital circa 1897, a star-nosed mole, a palatometer, a telegraph crossarm complete with two insulators, an untitled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Compound Trouble | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Asked what he thought of the Lampoon as a publication, Ibis sighed and brought froth an image: "It's like chamber music with a bawdy brass chair interrupting all the time." But his distaste was tinged with a shade of admiration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Prexy Abducted; Bird Spurns 'Poon | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...spells out every sentence and then adds exclamation points. Causes are forgotten in the passion for effects; a vision of Hell dwindles into a Grand Guignol. Elia Kazan has directed the play vividly as a theater piece; he doubtless could not help adding glare to what cries out for shade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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