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Word: visualizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Forty Fair | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Died. Thomas Beer, 50, author of The Mauve Decade, Stephen Crane, Hanna; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Slow and obliquely precious in his writing, he produced few books, many potboilers for the Satevepost. Hipped on the influence of visual color on human life, he struggled ten years to prove his spectrum, left an unfinished volume on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Louis Duncan, who tells what happened in the Cornish household of his client, Mrs. Nance, after she had called him down from London to give her treatments. In 15 years of blindness, Duncan has learned to use his other senses with extraordinary acuteness, has even learned to repress his visual fantasies, thinking in terms of touch, hearing, smell. Handshakes and voices inform him of individuals he meets, except for Mrs. Nance's niece, Sophie Madron, who intrigues him by not shaking hands. He deduces that she is a more passionate as well as a more fastidious person than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: English Literary Horizon | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Dean Hanford's Miss Eva Weeks, Miss Helen Lang in the Freshman office, and Miss Rosalie S. Magruder of the Records Office, have worked in University Hall much longer than any of the deans and know more about the College's ins and outs. According to old timers, the visual appeal of the Dean's Office secretarial staff has noticeably improved within recent years...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Dean's Office, the Hub of Undergraduate Life | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

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