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Word: walked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Chairman Lewis Walker of the Teachers College Board got an anonymous letter, warning: "The lid is about to blow off at Western Illinois. The faculty is ready to walk out." If the lid does blow, the board will finally have to step in with the full-scale investigation that the faculty has long wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Football, Anyone? | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Vice versa. You see, I've found the answer: the dorms are amplifying systems during the day; you can't walk through a library without some hornrimmed creature goggling from between the pages of a mouldy scrapbook at you; and this Square is palsy in motion; this place makes my flesh crawl right off my bones during...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Horses of the Night | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...live at night; at night the hampsters creep away into their sawdust rooms, the rotten exhaust smell congeals and drains away down a sewer, and you can live, you can feel yourself breathe when you walk along an empty street; the world is yours because you're the only conscious being left to give it meaning; at night I become myself, the way I want to live...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Horses of the Night | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...Still's works, Albright Director Smith made a direct approach, found Still in his third-floor walk-up Manhattan studio. With 40 canvases on hand, Still placed only four against the wall. Topmost was the 9-ft.-5½-in. by 13-ft. Red and Black, in Still-like hot red. velvety black and stalactites of white. Director Smith bought it on the spot (estimated price: $5,000 to $7,000). Still says he picked it for the Albright because "it speaks with vigor." As to what it speaks, whether of the West's towering spaces and lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HOME FOR MODERNS | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...appreciates a uniform "to the fullest extent," fills a disproportionate amount of screen time, not to mention space. But the show is saved at almost every turn by Actor Grant. At 53, he is perhaps the only one of the older generation of movie heroes who can still walk into a closeup without pinning up his jowls. And even a bad line somehow seems great when Gary pays it out as smooth as tooth paste. As for a good line, he can drop it like a radioactive potato. Item: "What is your ex-wife calling you about?" asks Actress Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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