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Word: stillnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Procter & Gamble officials later assured the CRIMSON that their promise was still good and that gratis soapboxes were waiting for legitimate claimants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Shower-Bather Gets No Soap | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Merry Christmas | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Some big problems must still be licked. One is the lack of water needed for refining. All big U.S. shale deposits lie in the most arid sections of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Another problem is the question of ash disposal: more than a ton of ash is piled up for every barrel of oil produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: New Source | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...tocs through several excellent routines. In the best of these he dances better while playing a drunk than most of the hoofers could cold sober. Throughout "Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety, but it's pleasant...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Dean Griswold of Harvard said several other colleges already use the plan, and that it has just been extended to Tufts. The students participating in the arrangement will still have to be accepted by the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tufts Pre-Law Men to Study In Law School | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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