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Word: warms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painter starts with a piece of canvas and literally builds his picture on it. Kantor builds with virtuosity, his favorite brush stroke a kind of scallop, his favorite atmospheric greys and browns full of warm or cold shine from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Composers | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Although most stores feel that business is better this year, one man was worried about the warm autumns the past few years. Glancing about to make sure that his heresy would not be over-heard, he whispered, "Personally, I'd just as soon have a bottle of pop at a game on one of these hot Saturdays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men Like Scotch, Rum Best, Local Liquor Men State | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard at large. Signal is the addition it makes to the ledger of House activities. Of prime importance is the web it weaves to bind closer faculty and students by its plan of tutor participation. It will undoubtedly play an important part in the further development of the warm community spirit which is the ultimate goal of the House Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST NIGHT | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

...Besides having his secretary and members of his family indicted, Mr. Chavez had other reason for feeling uncomfortable along with his ally, Mr. Dempsey. Last year they got Fred Healy, now indicted, appointed WPAdministrator in place of Lee Rowland, a friend of their political opponent, Governor Clyde Tingley. The warm-blooded Senator warned people not to condemn his friends and relatives before they had their day in court; meantime, his son-in-law took the "advisable" step of "separating himself" from the Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Too Apparent...too Many | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Lincoln is the most living and appealing figure in U.S. history because he expresses with the greatest glow the national dream of democracy and freedom. He is therefore, in addition to being a warm, sturdy, exciting human being, a permanent symbol who serves U.S. drama as the house of Atreus served the Greek, or as Faust and Don Juan serve the writers of the world. Lincoln's story is well-known, well-loved, an advantage for the playwright greater than the most smashing plot would be; for an audience bringing with it a quivering mass of associations is ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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