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Word: vines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once the babies had been emptied, "vivisectors claimed that science acknowledged no morals; plutocrats held that business is business and nothing else; Anacreontic writers put vine leaves in their hair and drank or drugged themselves to death . . . bright young things daubed their cheeks with paint and their nails and lips with vermilion, made love to soldiers, kept up their spirits with veronal tablets, and changed into battered old demireps in their twenties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G.B.S. on a Joy Ride | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Hollywood, which is no place to be bald in, is an excellent place for people who claim they can cure baldness. Red-haired Patricia M. Stenz runs a hair and scalp clinic across the street from Hollywood's "Radio City" at Sunset and Vine. She has a theory that all baldness is caused by a fungus. A bald head, says Miss Stenz, is something like athlete's foot, at the other end of the body; it runs in families, as athlete's foot does, not through heredity but because sons catch it from their fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bald Claims | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...affairs to study plants and words (nature and man). Life with these quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then did his heart stir when moss and ivy grew green on the ruins of the towns, and under the broken tracery of vaulted cathedrals the bats fluttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Steel to Faith | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...notable exceptions, U.S. leadership in world affairs had been unimaginative and uncertain. Time & again the U.S. had failed to grasp its opportunities. When Britain's Ernest Bevin suggested a union of Britain and Western Europe, the U.S. had cheered loudly, then sidestepped. The union idea died on the vine. In the U.N., around the anterooms and lounges, the most frequently heard complaint from delegates who looked to the U.S. for leadership was: "We would like to follow you but we don't know where you're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Lost Initiative | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Then, with his arms round the shoulders of his grandnieces Ava and Manu, the knobby brown man shuffled weakly down the red sandstone pathway leading from Birla House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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