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Word: urbans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actors Lorentz took Dudley Digges, Myron McCormick, Storrs Haynes, Will Geer, Dorothy Adams, Dorothy Urban, Effie Anderson. He taught them to act as if they were not acting, got them to behave as if they belonged at the clinic. Two of his men studied at the Center to qualify as clinicians. For some of the delivery shots Lorentz used the clinic's pregnant patients. One worked with him for four hours, then went home and had her baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...thing always certain in Russia is that Moscow fares better than any other urban centre, and you may always be sure that when Moscow is hungry, the rest of the country is hungrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hungry | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...cinemaddicts the example of the famed Swiss family which fled from the Napoleonic wars to the peace of a South Sea islet. It also makes clear that flight to the tropical paradise will not be all coconut milk and honey if mother and the children are more given to urban ways than to the Tolstoyan delights of wood turning, leather tanning and animal husbandry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...nothing more than an eloquent, friendly warning from the great theologist, Cardinal Bellarmin. It is on this occasion that Harsanyi has him make (gaily) his famous-probably apocryphal -remark: "Eppur si muove" ("Nevertheless it moves"). The heat was not really turned on until Galileo was 69, when Pope Urban VIII in a personal pet had the sick old man scared into recantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Planet Seer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...scaled pigeon-holes, such a revision would offer a broad and stable cultural sweep to the undergraduate. During his first year and a half at college he would gain perspective, he would study the field of human experience before tucking himself off in a corner of applied Biology or Urban Sociology. At the slight sacrifice of the choice of a few distribution courses, he would add a definite content to his liberal education upon which he can build...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATE EYE TO THE FUTURE | 1/9/1940 | See Source »

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