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Word: amateurishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel's Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their playing. They were, in fact, a hardworking group of Philadelphia professionals, called the American Society of the Ancient Instruments, and last week they were giving their 17th annual festival in the University of Pennsylvania's little cream-brick Museum auditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ancient Instruments | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Amateurish Hating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Sirs: TIME, Dec. 25, in an article entitled "The Nisei Go Back" gave some examples of communities venting their wrath on Nisei, including servicemen. I think they are doing a strictly amateurish job of hating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...Letter. The issue came into the open with the publication of an exchange of letters between Vice Admiral Segundo Storni, Argentine Foreign Minister, and U.S. State Secretary Cordell Hull. Wrote Storni, in one of the most amateurish diplomatic papers of the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Misunderstood Argentina | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...went - casual, saucy, amateurish, wonderful. For U.S. listeners, there was sadness in almost every line of the broad cast. The doughboys and doughgirls wanted above all to get home, The home front has heard little of this sort of program because of stanch adherence by NBC and CBS to their long standing ban on recorded programs, and an apparent reluctance by the military to promote direct civilian radio contact with troops abroad. In England BBC has long run recordings from far fields, found they have a big and attentive audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Sidewalks of North Africa | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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