Search Details

Word: weren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...picture follows Virginia's progress through the various wards, divided into descending degrees of misery, like the circles of hell. Throughout, it preserves the novel's sharply observed minor touches of asylum life-the nurses' way of speaking in front of inmates as if they weren't there (as some adults speak in front of children); the strange snobbery of the sick who look down on their sicker fellows; the large-looming small idiocies of institutional bureaucracy, such as the clean carpet in one ward which must not be stepped on (and the wonderful old woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...overcrowded, with 6,100 patients jammed into space intended for 4,700. "The hospital needed at least twice as many doctors, twice as many nurses, and three times as many attendants to provide adequate care and treatment . . . Often only one attendant watched over two wards for homicidal patients. There weren't nearly enough recreation workers or occupational therapy workers to help Rockland's patients on the road back to mental normalcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Herded Like Cattle | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...boxing, there weren't four heavyweights worth Joe Louis' time to lay them out. But last week, with much pomp & ceremony, four hopeful heavyweights climbed into prize rings to fight for the right to face the aging champ next June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Foe for Joe | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...There weren't enough bows for the fiddles, so some played pizzicato (plucking) all the time. To get hair to make more bows for the fiddles, the prisoners surreptitiously plucked strands from the tail of the horse that pulled their food cart at mealtimes. How did his orchestra sound? "Well, not like the New York Philharmonic." How was the violin he played himself? "Fine," said Violinist Goldberg, "except it had guitar strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Intermission in Java | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...games in the seven matches, McGill was only able to squeeze out three victories. Coach Jack Barnaby attributed this to McGill's greenness and the fact that they probably weren't used to the Hemenway courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGill Bows, 7-0, In Squash Match | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next