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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But most of these flaws are appropriate to the special Hellinger brands of friendliness, boyishness and sentimentality that pervade the picture. It would be hard to imagine a movie melodrama less cynical, less brutal and cheaply hardboiled, more essentially kindly and sweet-tempered. And it would be hard to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

There was a time when the C.I.O.'s highhanded, Red-tinted National Maritime Union could & would tie up a ship at the drop of a seaman's swab. Last week, when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Tack | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Rome's operagoers remember Giuseppe Di Stefano as the handsome young tenor who sang Manon one night when terrible-tempered Tenor Lauri-Volpi fitfully refused to go on. But even before that, Di Stefano had gotten ovations that reached the ears of U.S. booking agents.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Giuseppe Arrives | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

TIME'S editorial offices occupy the 28th and 29th floors of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center. They are plainly furnished and littered with paper. The prevailing atmosphere is tension, tempered by absent-minded civility. Until a lot of newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: Circles toward Monday | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Trigger-tempered Max Hirsch, 68, a horse trainer by trade, said he wasn't interested in the $50,000 prize money. He just wanted to beat "that horse." He felt so strongly about Armed, 1947's horse of the year, that he couldn't even mention his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bad Day for Max | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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