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Word: tars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Handful of Fire | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Jalopies travel in second gear all the way because there is no pickup in third. They hit 45 to 50 miles an hour on a quarter mile tar track. Each driver has his own favorite technique, depending on his ability...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

Other upsets last week: ¶Unpredictable Louisiana State knocked the props from under North Carolina and Halfback Choo Choo Charlie Justice, 13-7, for the Tar Heels' first regular-season setback in 22 games. ¶Underdog Southern Methodist, minus the services of Quarterback Doak Walker (ill with influenza), came from behind to beat undefeated Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset Saturday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...discontinuing trolley traffic between Central Square and Harvard Square, City Engineer Edgar Davis and state engineers decided that any attempt to salvage the track would be wasted effort. Davis explains that the roadbed is fortunately low along Massachusetts Avenue, and for that reason two and one-half inches of tar can be applied directly on top of the track. Rather than harming the paving job, the track, instead, adds strength to the roadbed. Work will continue today and probably tomorrow, with traffic limited on Plympton, Dunster, Holyoke, and Lindon streets, and Massachusetts Avenue during most of the remaining construction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burying the Cobbles | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...since Edward VIII gave up his throne for Wally Simpson had society anywhere suffered a comparable constitutional crisis. All week long, under giant camelthorn trees at Serowe, thatched-hut capital of the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland in South Africa, the tar-black chieftains of the Bamangwato tribe pondered and palavered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: For Throne & Love | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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