Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return, at 34, was another piece of evidence that big-time boxing was on the ropes. In Manhattan, Sport Columnist Jimmy Cannon, an old fight fan, got so wrought up about it that he predicted: "The fight racket is perishing . . . and in our time will be an obsolete sport...
...message, though lengthier, was not on the same plane as the first telegraphed message-Samuel Morse's "What hath God Wrought...
...feeling of depression wrought upon me by the present status of American "Fine Art" is offset only by a passionate hatred for the critics who have brought this condition about. The shame is not that we have no great masters of fine art, the shame is that those with talent enough are discouraged from...
...Woman In White (Warner), Wilkie Collins' mid-Victorian melodrama, has enough plot for a dozen ordinary movies-and a lot too much for one, unless that one is done brilliantly. This production is sound, rather than brilliant. Chunk by chunk it is patiently, intricately wrought and highly polished; but the chunks have to be shoved around like so many massive pieces of Victorian furniture. Those who made the film have taken a pretty good, but no longer very believable book a great deal too seriously. Treated with less respect, it might have been turned into a lively, believable movie...
...hard," he said, but "our work and that of future generations will help regulate the complex civilization wrought by physical science and technology...