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Word: webbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke to pay $3 a month for a room. At 24, hospitalized with a mild case of tuberculosis, he began to think about writing plays. Primed on Ibsen and Strindberg, he enrolled in Professor George Pierce Baker's famed 47-Workshop at Harvard. His first published play, The Web, was set in a squalid boardinghouse. Its three main characters (not counting an illegitimate baby in the cradle) were a prostitute, a pimp and a murderer. The play's opening line was: "Gawd! What a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouble with Brown | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Traitor and the Spy, by James Thomas Flexner. How Benedict Arnold wove treason and Major John Andre was caught in the web; an impressive double history, told with scholarship and edge (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Glass Web (Universal-International) succeeds in covering up its basic dullness by skillfully using a couple of cinematic dirty words: adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Each university hospital should become the center of a web of medical facilities, including a prepayment plan, a home-care plan and group practice, and should also serve smaller, satellite hospitals in a big-brother capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Reform from Without? | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...Traitor and the Spy, by James Thomas Flexner. How Benedict Arnold wove treason and Major John Andre was caught in the web; an impressive double history, told with scholarship and edge (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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