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Years later in Paris, putting aside the things his father taught him, he experimented with paint, bronze, wooden cages, plaster balls, and a model of a nose. He once built a cage-like wooden house, placed the skeleton of a flapping bird in the attic, and a spinal column dangling downstairs, and called the whole thing "The palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Without Fat | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Skeleton forces will remain on hand over the Christmas vacation to maintain limited dining, library, and recreational facilities for whatever is left of the college population after tomorrow's mass evacuation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College to Offer Limited Facilities Over Yule Layoff | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

...last week, as Lew Douglas flew back to No. I Grosvenor Square from consultations in Washington, he was the most important diplomat of the most powerful nation in the world. In his fat calfskin briefcase he carried the skeleton of the most ambitious economic foreign policy in history: the reconstruction of Western Europe. In 1947, U.S. diplomacy was big business, as big as the enormous wealth and prestige of the richest and most powerful nation on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Manager Abroad | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Mannons were the first family of a small New England seaport of 1865. Through the body of their Freudian existence, O'Neill has rammed the misfitting dramatic skeleton of the Greek trilogy, Oresteia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Deadman's Isle, in the eye of the blast, To Deadman's Isle she speeds her fast; By skeleton shapes her sails are furled And the hand that steers is not of this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Out of the Mists | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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