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Word: welsh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Lancashire textiles and Welsh coal once led the list of exports, Britain's new staples are metals and engineering products (more than 50% of all British exports last year), chemicals ($560 million worth), and such technical specialties as radioactive isotopes (Britain is by far the world's largest isotope supplier, shipping 7,000 consignments a year to some 46 different countries). British car exports, the Board of Trade reported, "greatly exceed the combined exports of all European countries and are almost double those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Transformation in Trade | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Gauguin's latest biographers, the Hansons, are a British husband-and-wife team who have successfully sunk their teeth into some big, meaty subjects, including Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (TIME, May 19, 1952) and Chinese Gordon (TIME, May 31). Gauguin is an even tougher order, not only because he needs explaining as an artist who helped change the face of painting, but because he has become a symbol of the conflict between art and breadwinnery, artistic duty and normal social responsibility. In their fine study, the Hansons' own sympathy is with the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saga of a Stockbroker | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Quite Early One Morning, by Dylan Thomas. The late, brilliant Welsh poet has a lark with some uneven but delightful prose pieces (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

UNDER MILK WOOD, by Dylan Thomas, was pronounced the richest theatrical event of the season by at least one Manhattan critic when the late Welsh poet rendered it as a barstool reading. In print, it emerged brilliantly as an earthy, mockingly tender account of a village's single day of living, loving and leaving, recorded with a devoted hi-fi ear for the sounds of speech, of the sea and of the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: POETRY | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Mary Welsh Hemingway, 46, an indefatigable former newspaper and magazine correspondent* from Minnesota, it is a fortunate day when she can reckon by 7 p.m. how many are staying for dinner and by 10 how many for the night. Life at Finca Vigia is, as she once reported it, a "perpetual weekend . . . involving time, space, motion, noise, animals and personalities, always approaching but seldom actually attaining complete uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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