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Word: wheel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glaring angrily about him, he splashes paint all over his clothes, gums up his great shock of greying black hair, uses his thighs as a palette. His mural in the Treasury Building represents Siqueiros' own emphatic last judgment on Mexican history, in the form of a huge baroque wheel of horses and men. Mexico's liberators and heroes are seen speeding upwards into the vault; Mexico's tyrants, traitors and collaborationists hurtle tangled toward the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint & Pistols | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Wheel In Bredasdorp, South Africa, Custodian F. Thorpe finally resigned after 30 years of conscientiously attending the clock on the local Dutch Reformed Church; the clock then let go and irresponsibly struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Quaint Holy Cross posters like "Virginia ham will be our bacon" got an airborne answer yesterday noon as a monoplane with an unidentified Crimson partisan at the wheel strafed the Worcester campus with leaflets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Air Raid Carries Crimson Rebuttal To Sanguinary Holy Cross Sentiment | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

Tallulah Banlchead, the theater's pin wheel from Alabama, was "resting comfortably" with neuritis at a Chicago hospital; Private Lives closed down for a fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Resting Comfortably | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Pablo Picasso once warned a baffled interviewer not to "ask questions of the man at the wheel." People think he is sometimes off his course, but the aging (65) helmsman of modern art presumably knows where he is going. For 40 years he has let others debate his painting for him. The debate was hot as ever last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Debate | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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