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Word: weekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...more familiarity was what listeners needed, they would have the chance to get it. As the winner of a Naumburg Musical Foundation award, Symphony No. 2 is to be recorded by Columbia this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Idiom Is Advanced | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Last week the Supreme Court refused to review the case. As usual, the court gave no reason for its refusal. But Justice Felix Frankfurter tried to clarify matters in a 25-page opinion. The line where a free press infringes on the individual's right to a fair trial, he said, had by no means been finally drawn by the court's refusal to review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fine Line | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Washington's Corcoran Gallery, which prides itself on showing the best in modern American art, housed a newcomer last week. The debutant, a shy, gentle man with a Pinocchio-sized nose, was the Washington Post's cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block, 40. He had won a Pulitzer Prize (1942), but he'd never seen anything like this. Eyeing the 194 cartoons, all signed with the economy-size pen name (Herblock), one dowager gushed to Block: "There's a complete timelessness about your cartoons. They'll last, I think, for at least ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Block Party | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Shocked by lurid crime comics being sold to Dominion teenagers, Canada's Parliament had banned them from the newsstands (TIME, Dec. 19). By last week, many Canadians were wondering if the ban was a mistake. The publishers were putting out new sexy stories, e.g., My Love Secret, My Sisters Loved Him Too, I Was a Gypsy's Sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Worse Than Crime? | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...pages of ads in the Oregonian, cut down the paper's daily share of the M & F advertising budget to one page, while continuing to take as many as four or five in the Journal. To the Oregonian, that meant a loss of an estimated $8,000 a week, and it began to lay off printers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Snap the Whip | 1/23/1950 | See Source »