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...article about Dr. Stephens and Mercy Hospital will draw hundreds of letters from protesting readers who will coat the facts with a varnish of personal sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Only Yearbook Publications and the Liberal Union have moved into their new quarters so far. The remaining rooms are so much fresh paint and varnish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clubs Fail to Claim Rooms In SAC House | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

Wrote observant Jane: "Women, they say, will always give a varnish of duty to their inclinations. I wonder whether men are any better in always giving to their disinclinations a varnish of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grains of Gold | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...look the gift horse in the mouth. With tiny cotton swabs dipped in turpentine and acetone, not much bigger than those used to clean a baby's nose, he patiently and gingerly removed from its 60 square feet of canvas alternating films of candle soot and brown varnish. The job took 18 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dark Gift Horse | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Came to Dinner. In Denver, thieves broke into Barbara Klo-berdans' apartment, took $30 cash, $49 worth of clothes, ate some potato salad, drank some Scotch, found varnish and brush in the kitchen cabinet and touched up the door they had splintered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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