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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its eminence, one complaint might be made against the Vienna Philharmonic: it plays too little modern music, rarely even gets around to the works of such eminent Viennese as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. But the men of the Vienna Philharmonic know what they like. Says Concertmaster Willy Boskovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Vienna Sound | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

When the medical world was agog over the discovery that blood circulates through the body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep's blood into human patients weakened by too generous bloodletting. Since they had never heard of such things as protein compatibility, it is small wonder that most patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sheep's Blood Bath | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

The film has its failures. The movie hero is pretty much an overgrown boy scout who never experiences the moral struggles that beset the hero of the book. Then, too, the story sometimes lags-not, oddly enough, because it is too long but because it is too short. For the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

The Job. At first, the Giants did not quite know what to do with him; at 230 Ibs., he seemed a little too light for the defensive line, a step too slow for offensive guard. But in the third game of the season, the Giants' middle linebacker was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

The show's pervasive fault is that, instead of offsetting sweetness with lightness, it turns sticky with sweetness and light. Though often attractive, the abbey scenes come off too pretty; though sometimes fetching, the children's scenes come off too cute. Even Mary Martin, however deft, comes off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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