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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solid Flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Doesn't that make her a bit of a surrealist? "Not at all," snaps O'Brady. "I'm as solid as bricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: American in Paris | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Said he: "The principal and perhaps the only solid hope for preventing the use of atomic energy for destruction on a scale that has not yet been disclosed is for peoples everywhere to come to understand . . . this new critter, the atom, and what it holds for evil and for good . . . and to understand thereby the opportunities that lie before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Those of Little Thought | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Hanging three deep on the sides of streetcars, celebrators sang "Pum pum pum" and the motorman punctuated the "meow" with a clang of his bell. Meanwhile, "There's a cat in the tuba" had become a solid part of Brazilian slang-a rough equivalent of "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Cat in the Tuba | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...afar off yearns for his wife or merely for the home of his childhood has begun his sleepwalking. . . . He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur. He stretches his arms sideways and forwards like a poor tightrope dancer who, high above solid earth, knows of a better support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-Hitler Germany | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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