Search Details

Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

The appearance of a bright football guard seems to be fused with a pleasing reticence in Wilbur J. Bender. But though he enjoys watching football, he avers he knows nothing about it technically, is not a fisherman, and fills his sparse spare time by reading history texts. All in all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/5/1947 | See Source »

"Thus, not in spite of innocence but because of it, blood appeared; and not the jubilant blood of birth alone, but blood more especially pleasing to Kali, who is both mother and demolisher. India tore herself in two in the womb as a condition to being born at all. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA-PAKISTAN: The Trial of Kali | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Relative income from other sports is interesting. Basketball "earned a little money for the first time in 15 years" last winter because of the popular double-headers scheduled in the Boston Garden in conjunction with such colleges as B.C. and Holy Cross. Hockey seems to be on its way up...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

The triangle: "Advertisers won't sponsor television programs without a mass audience. We can't get mass audiences until the American people are given . . . pleasing . . . entertainment. And ... no private companies are big enough to finance it." (One topflight show, McDonald estimates, would cost almost $10 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pay-As-You-See | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

"How do I paint? well first I get a frame, then I saw my masonite to fit. ... Now it is ready for the scene, what ever the mind may produce, A land scape picture, an Old Bridge a Dream or a summer or winter scene, Childhoods memory, what everone fancys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma Explains | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

First | Previous | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | Next | Last