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Word: showings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers show that enough students are planning to purchase the album, the committee will proceed with its plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Is Polled On '50 Yearbook | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

...elder Warbis might have been exaggerating his dislike of son Thomas' work, for Warbis senior had submitted it to the exhibition in the first place. When Warbis junior and his mother went to see the show, the young artist had a chance to defend his own painting, but he had nothing to say for publication. He simply grinned at the flabbergasted gallerygoers. Once he went off and stood on his head in a corner. Modern Artist Warbis was just seven, had painted Skegness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All the More Interesting | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...through the crowds. Elsewhere, other dealers had tried similar stunts in vain. Manhattan's Herman & Ross offered free television sets "with the next 25 cars we sell"-but sold none. Seven Dallas dealers lured 5,000 people to a joint used-car auction with a $1,000 giveaway show, but sold few cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: No Sale | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Growing Pains. In Taylorville, Ill., Bill Grant, manager of a chain of movie theaters, received a $5 bill and an anonymous letter: "This money is in payment for the times. I lied about my age in order to get into the show for half price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...purpose of the pamphlet, which will be distributed privately to all members of the Association of American Colleges, is to show the problems which occur in teaching a course of this nature. President Conant warns, however, that "a case-history approach is both controversial and experimental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Publishes Pamphlet on Nat. Science Teaching | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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