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Word: thems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But, admitted Erck, "the girls do study now and then and sometimes they produce quite excellent results." When they do poorly, "they take their penalties like men, and if under the weight of their trials . . . they do allow themselves to burst into tears . . . they become very angry with themselves. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Male & Females | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Today, at 53, Baxter gets embarrassed when students speak of him as their favorite professor. "I don't want them to be aware of me," he insists. "It's the subject they're learning, not the professor." Keeping them unaware of their professor was one of few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sentimentalist | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Serge Koussevitzky had retired as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but not as a friend of music. Last week the Library of Congress received a gift of more than $100,000 from the wealthy, 75-year-old conductor, to be used for commissioning original compositions. The library was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Originality | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (the RCA Victor Chorale of Women's Voices, with Laura Newell, harpist; Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Benjamin Britten's settings of these Old English verses, some of them anonymous, are ingeniously simple and tonally beautiful. Performance and recording: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Although cheap glasses may not fit well, and their flat lenses are not so easy on the eyes as more expensive, curved lenses, they nonetheless serve their purpose according to Dr. Peckham. Says he: "I have no objection to people buying $5 sunglasses, but I do object to their being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Darker the Better | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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