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Word: shoulder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ninth Floor. Three years have gone by since the hand fell on Dennis' shoulder. They were times to try the soul of a less artful dodger. Times were not good for U.S. communism. Organized labor, which had once been so tolerant of the whole business, had reacted violently against it. The party which had once controlled a good chunk of the C.I.O. unions, retained desperate control in only two big ones: the electric workers and the West Coast longshoremen. The alien cast of communism's face became plain for everyone to see. The disclosure of Communist espionage sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Shoulder the Sky. In six weeks, in an assigned paper, Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...while teaching in Tokyo and Peiping, Empson began to put together a poetry of his own. Some of his early verses now seem overstrained, jammed with more allusions than anything this side of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. But he was probably the first man anywhere to shoulder the brand-new sky of the Cambridge physicists and astronomers and jostle intelligible poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Breyor, president of the New England division, signed most of the papers last night in a Leverett House room as some 15 members of the University's movie colony watched over his shoulder, William L. Alden '50, Charles Yoder '49, and Lauriston Ward '50 then signed for Ivy Films. Final arrangements will be completed soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Sell World Rights To New Movie | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

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