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Word: twentieths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although he occassionally lapses into technical obscurity. ("Zeitgeist," incidentally, a term which Hall tosses around with aplomb, means "the spirit of the time"--this reviewer had to look it up and you might have to too.) Whether anybody cares if Hall thinks Wilbur will be remembered as a major twentieth century writer is another question...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Other choice offerings are three half courses in the Encyclopaedists and the moralists by Herbert Dieckmann, a well-constructed course in Literature of the Twentieth Century, with Leroy C. Breunig. Breunig also rated departmental plaudits for his fine job with French 2, a history course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Romance Languages | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...representing the standpoint of the movie industry, Twentieth Century Fox's president Skouras is expected to talk on the movies as art. His studio produced "All About Eve," Academy Award winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Discussion Features Law School Forum Tonight | 4/13/1951 | See Source »

...high-school commencement. The main actors of Academy Award night were gathered in a smoky nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street. There, Nominee José Ferrer was host at a party to celebrate the 52nd birthday of Nominee Gloria Swanson, his co-star in Broadway's Twentieth Century. Host Ferrer never got a chance to deliver the speech he had planned in honor of Actress Swanson's Oscar. After the news came over the radio from Hollywood that Judy Holliday had won the best-actress award (for the dumb blonde in Born Yesterday), Gloria Swanson gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Opening tomorrow is a showing of twentieth century drawing and water colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Will Present Talks on Painting | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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