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Word: luckiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...This snow storm is the luckiest break we could have," exclaimed Harvard's new ski coach, Bill Halsey, first year Architectural School student and graduate of Dartmouth last spring, in an interview in the locker room after yesterday's first cross-country practice. "I'm pleased and surprised at today's turnout; we'll have a fighting chance against Dartmouth this winter, but we have to work on the cross-country and jumping...

Author: By John C. Cobb nd, | Title: SNOWSTORM OPENS SKIING AS TEAM PRACTICES X-COUNTRY | 11/30/1940 | See Source »

...Luckiest exhibitor was no Virginian, but 21-year-old Alan Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Artist Brown, who wins his bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Payne Paintings | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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