Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wyeth portrait of Christina took second prize at last month's Carnegie Exhibition (TIME, Oct. 25). "It looks sort of photographic," Wyeth admits. "I guess they all do, but the fact is I never paint from nature. I make careful sketches and then change everything around. For instance the field in Christina's World is not really that large, but I felt it that way. Ever since I was a small kid I felt it was big. For a month and a half I built the ground up, to make it come toward you, that surge of earth...
Every Man a King. Last week New York Star Columnist Max Lerner took a wincing look at the good fortune that radio's cornucopia had showered on the family of Edward Easton, an unemployed jewelry salesman of Attleboro, Mass. Mrs. Easton had correctly named a tune on ABC's Stop the Music. Wrote Lerner...
...kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold. Each year, in revising his Handbook of Private Schools, he writes a new introduction, and usually finds something different to attack. Last week, with the 31st edition of his Handbook, he took up the evils of wealth...
Last September, Helen went to the New Haven unit of the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. For some ten years doctors have had a technique for operating on the heart to remedy Helen's condition, patent (open) ductus arteriosus. The operation, usually performed on children, took four hours. The open duct was tied at each end and then cut; the heart was relieved of its extra work...
...room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...