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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buoyant bathing suit, woven from tubular threads containing tiny, air-filled capsules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Burgess Meredith as George is adequate, but Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie is a too-conventional half-wit, even to the throaty voice and harsh r's. The bit parts are the heart of the movie, and from start to finish are woven into powerful moods of pity, despair, and humility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Pallia are woven annually from the fleece of two white lambs, blessed in Rome on the feast of St. Agnes (near-Latin for lamb), and sheared at Easter. An Archbishop must petition the Pope for his pallium, is awarded it at a consistory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Archbishop and U.S. | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...nationwide radio address Mr. Roosevelt stressed the non-political character of his farm policies. But woven through his remarks was the theme that agricultural interests have achieved more in the last seven years than they would have under a Republican administration...

Author: By (the UNITED Press), | Title: Over the Wire | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...boogie-woogie that the pale young critics who heard him rated him a mere notch below his teacher. Said Pianist Paul ponderously: "[Boogie-woogie] is a kind of modern Bach, in so far as the left hand does not play a mere accompaniment but a distinct theme that is woven in with the theme of the right hand in a definite counterpoint style, with Bach-like improvisations on the themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach and Boogie-Woogie | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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