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Word: winters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Merry Christmas | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

These perseverent jalopy-lovers are refusing to put their vehicles into hibernation for the winter and to await the usual rash of outworn rattlotraps which breaks out every spring in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Jalopies' or 'Antiques,' Some Student Cars Go On Forever | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...Hoyas wound up with a 9 and 16 record last year, but Shepard thinks they may be considerably improved. The nearest Harvard has come to playing Georgetown was last winter, when the teams held up both ends of a Boston double bill...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Varsity Cagers to Play in Washington; Yardlings Topple Tech Freshmen, 64-59 | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...untested freshman hockey team will play the curtain raiser of a 17-game season today when it faces Melrose High in the Boston Arena. From all appearances, Coach Stan Priddy seems to have a well-balanced group with plenty of depth at his disposal this winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Hockey Team Will Vie With Melrose in Opener | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

This week the atmosphere at the Winter White House began to quicken. Mrs. Truman and Margaret prepared to return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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