How To Use 1940s In A Sentence

Converted into a home in the 1940s, it has a semicircular sitting room. Times, Sunday Times
Increased Irish emigration to Britain during the 1940s supplied navvies, nurses, clerks, policemen and munition workers.
The new Chisholm Jacket combines western fashion from the 1940s with the modern fit and tailoring that Schaefer Outfitter is known for.
In the 1940s, Tarski joined in this development of equational logic; the subject progressed rapidly from the 1950s till the present time. The Algebra of Logic Tradition
Australian physiologist Frank Cotton played a central role in the evolution of the aviation garment in the 1930s and 1940s.

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But there was nothing preordained about the outcome of events in the Balkans in the late 1940s.
A student of Dalcroze eurhythmics in New York and Paris, Talmud was one of the most important dance teachers at the Playhouse from the early 1920s into the 1940s. Dance Performance in the United States.
It is a sound reaching back to the farthest recesses of his throat, to an Etonian schooling in the late 1940s, and to classroom discipline as a Bo'ness Academy dominie in the late 1950s.
Hirsh has optioned William Weintraub's City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and '50s.
Eighty thousand people worked in steel in the 1940s; by 1987, 4,000 remained. Andy Kroll: Unemployed: Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis
Paolozzi, born in 1924, had even gone to Paris in the 1940s to study Dada and Surrealism at the source.
In the latest issue of Symmetry, a magazine about particle physics, I've traced the chain of scientific developments in the 1930s and 1940s that inspired Williamson to write his "Seetee" tales -- if not the first, certainly the most influential stories to explore the physics of "contraterrene" (CT) matter. Boing Boing
American neo-orthodoxy in the 1940s and 1950s typically meant a compound of Brunner's dogmatics, Niebuhr's theological ethics, and the scripture scholarship of the biblical theology movement.
This beautiful, green-eyed film star with the perfect cheekbones might seem more obviously at home in a ballgown in some 1940s Hollywood melodrama or film noir than in a pinny in a school in northern Scotland.
Be sure to check out the interesting Judith Leiber pocketwatch handbag and the 1940s Tina Leser blouse. Mary Kincaid: Weekly eBay Roundup of Vintage Clothing Finds
In the late 1930s and 1940s, Dorothy Snell, as she was then known, competed and won medals at the national level in novice, junior and senior competitions. Dorothy S. Curtis; Capitol Hill aide, skater
Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
He entered repertory theatre in the late 1940s as an actor, and then worked as a racing driver and manager for the internationally successful Stirling Moss.
Hostile commentators seized on this to paint a picture of continuing retrogression to which the regime's final collapse in the late 1940s in an orgy of corruption induced by hyperinflation, lends colour.
The scent, a fruity-floral blend of Fuji apple, white peach nectar and bergamot, is balanced with white flowers and has base notes of amber, blonde woods and warm sand — designed to capture the come-hither spirit of the 1940s actress. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton Releases Her 10th Celebrity Fragrance
Control charts and statistical quality control generally became popular during World War Il and peaked in the late 1940s.
The age-old distinction between day and night eroded, especially during the 1940s, when wartime needs necessitated round-the-clock production.
The camp is the Stewart Granger Memorial Collection of 1940s safari tents, with no running water or electricity but with four-poster beds and mosquito nets and cambric sheets and bucket showers and paraffin lamps and butlers.
The level of religious attendance reported in the Gallup surveys probably exaggerates the reality, especially in recent decades, when most other surveys show a gradual decline.18 Virtually all experts agree, however, that the period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s was one of exceptional religious observance in America. American Grace
· The first breakthrough occurred in the 1940s with the development of the drug dapsone, which arrested the disease. Chapter 2
The humble abode which Nelson Mandela occupied when he first came to Joburg during the early 1940s is to be transformed into a heritage attraction site.
Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
They believe that they can recreate the depth of emotion found in some 1940s melodramas by reproducing or reinventing a certain set of narrative devices and by clever casting and design work.
Mass employment and low interest rates, shortages, quotas and regulations were the staples of the British economy in the late 1940s and business failures were few.
Now, the barge will ply the canal again, as it once did in the 1940s.
It was excavated in the 1940s, but the bodies had been cremated and not buried.
In the 1940s some of his family died as they fled famine in their home town. Times, Sunday Times
Bascom is distant kin, and getting to hear him speak on this disc, introducing the tunes as he recorded them for the Library of Congress in the late 1940s, is spine-chilling.
Back in the 1940s, when the area code system was designed, there was no such thing as a touch-tone phone - all telephones operated via rotary dialing pulse operation.
There is a parallel between his state of mind in the late 1960s and when he wrote the book in the early 1940s.
In the early 1940s, it became customary to anaesthetize patients with barbiturate injections.
The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated. Latest News
When I was at school in the 1940s and 50s, we were asked to write compositions on how we would spend this leisure time and what kind of tourism we would like to see developed.
Women apparently began performing in barbershop style in the 1930s & 1940s.
Li Chang-Zhi is a famous esthetician, literature theoretician and critic who grew up in the 1930s to 1940s in Chinese academic circle.
Health records show that the process dates back to the 1940s, when tests showed that irradiated raw ground beef stayed fresh longer than nonirradiated meat. Food Irradiation: Are You For or Against It?
Set in the showbiz circuit of the 1940s, it charmed critics with its corny jokes.
Many of the workers and union officials targeted in the witch-hunts had been leaders and initiators of the militant struggles of the 1930s and early 1940s.
Today they would receive treatment - but in the 1940s they were publicly shamed, stripped of their badges of rank in front of their comrades and ordered to carry out menial tasks on another station.
When I was a kid in the mid-1940s, can't remember the exact date but it was the year I had measles, we put up brightly-printed linen bunting for our street party in celebration of VE day.
Most 1940s homes had one of those, but it was used only in extremis. Times, Sunday Times
Other words on the list include 'wittol' - a man who tolerates his wife's unfaithfulness, which has not been much used since the 1940s. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The full range of vices attributed to decadent Roman emperors was to be found in the private dachas and public buildings of 1930s and 1940s Russia.
IT'S the 1940s and the loyalist government are very controlling. The Sun
One of TV's seminal pulpiteers was Oral Roberts, who started in the preaching business with ‘the World's Largest Gospel Tent’ in the late 1940s.
This Damon Runyon tale of Broadway in the 1940s, has a melee of characters including gamblers, nightclub performers and Salvationists seeking to reform wayward inhabitants of Times Square in New York.
Finland is a recently urbanised society - Finland used to be predominantly rural until the late 1940s when it became more industrial.
This was followed, in the 1940s, by a succession of cartoon film hits: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi.
Skellefteå's colours are black and yellow, and their uniform has a 1940s look, with stripes on the shoulders, a bit like the Chicoutimi Sagueneens. Sports
Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing "structural failures", such as "astronomic" environmental costs. The Unreasonable Man
Overall, it's a very readable interpretation of the intensive research being done on shotgun ballistics and performance in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
In the 1940s some of his family died as they fled famine in their home town. Times, Sunday Times
The situation for Japanese film-makers in the mid-1940s had deteriorated to unbearable levels.
They are a comfortable modern dance shoe based on a classic 1940s design. Times, Sunday Times
During the 1940s, the medical parties were divided into three divisions.
Thus we have exhibits of 1940s era toys, an exhibition of Churchill Memorabilia, a model railway exhibit, a museum on the history of computing - some minicomputer stuff - plus lots of 1970s vintage micros I hadn't seen for a while.
I’ve been reading Robert Meredith’s book on The Fate of Africa lately, and one striking thing about the section on decolonization from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s was precisely the extent to which in many circumstances the imperial powers were looking for an exit strategy. Matthew Yglesias » Exit Strategies
Members of the family would be buried there until the 1940s, thanks to William's generous gesture.
More detailed inquiries took place in the 1940s after a period of tumultuous relationships and high - profile break-ups.
How is its position in this case in any principled way different from those who organized the McCarthyite anticommunist purges on American college campuses in the 1940s and 1950s?
She resists at first but they slowly gain a rapport from the 1940s into the 1970s as the civil rights movement swirls around them. Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar
Better yet, a trawl through catalogues specialising in vintage SF yields plenty of examples of his work from the 1940s and 50s, the last, frantic, days of the true pulps, when stories had to jostle for the reader's attention, and the printed word competed with TV and the movies. Writers on Writing: Credentials
To be sure, by the 1940s, numerous young women were hospitalized for breakdown, winning at the least some rest amid the otherwise unredeemed burdens of the baby boom.
First, by the 1940s most fish harvesters were using motorized boats and were thus able to fish more traps in a larger area.
As recently as the 1940s, cheetahs were seen loping through the hills behind Jerusalem.
Operations in the 1940s consisted of a large open pit with smaller cuts and several tunnels.
The most outstanding of the Catalan translators was Josep Maria de Sagarra, who, starting in the 1940s, translated 27 plays into Catalan hendecasyllabic lines.
I immediately had copies made at great expense because it was typewritten on onionskin paper in the 1940s.
Beryllium was used as an agent to prolong the life of fluorescent light bulbs in the 1930s but was found to be a cause of acute and chronic berylliosis in the mid 1940s.
In the 1940s and 1950s, another estrogen, diethylstilbestrol, was widely given to Western women early in their pregnancies in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriage.
Thirteen months ago, I wrote about Ultra-Man as one superhero of the early 1940s who appeared to promote two-fisted isolationism rather than early defense against the Nazis and imperial Japan. Archive 2009-02-01
The resulting feud ravaged the Australian side of the 1930s and 1940s until Bradman finally purged O'Reilly's cabal.
Now Collectors Editions is expanding its entertainment art mission to include reproduction editions of concept pieces by Salvador Dali created when he was working at Disney in the 1940s.
Bearden's colorful, innovative collages document jazz performances, church socials, and other elements of black culture from the 1940s though his death in 1988.
Back in the 1940s, when the area code system was designed, there was no such thing as a touch-tone phone - all telephones operated via rotary dialing pulse operation.
The Fort Detrick biowarfare program was started in the early 1940s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Allies received intelligence reports that the Germans and Japanese were pursuing biological weapons. William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases
Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion.
From the 1920s to early 1940s, he led a series of passive resistance campaigns in pursuit of Swaraj (self-rule), which redefined the character of Indian nationalism.
Harrison and Steve nobody will care about a new WW, unless its a 1940s period piece with maybe jennifer connelly. the 70s lynda carter is holding the character hostage. most female superheros suck. what we need is a She-Hulk movie. beyonce would be good in that. jada pinkett as Jennifer Susan Walters, beyonce as She-hulk. now thats some extra butter in your popcorn right there. Beyonce Knowles wants Wonder Woman; WB Wants McG to Direct? | /Film
Latter-day students could never meet the college entrance standards required in the 1940s.
Starting especially in the 1940s observers of Los Angeles began viewing this self-conscious culture of the hard sell in terms of commodification and depersonalization.
But the efforts to distance themselves from blacks did not cohere into a new Italian American racial identity and culture until the 1940s. A Renegade History of the United States
Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tearooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
There is a "poetess" in the wilds of nineteenth-century frontier Canada ( "Meneseteung"), a violinist in the 1940s who dreams of leaving her baby outside to die ( "My Mother's Dream"), and an aging piano teacher, Miss Marsalles, whose popularity is waning ( "Dance of the Happy Shades"): A Quiet Genius
The smaller parts are done with professional polish, and I must mention Salvatore Baccaloni in the little role of Doctor Grenvil, because he would continue on to become a buffo star at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1940s.
During the 1940s and into 1950 most of the motive power for these trains consisted of F - 15 light Pacifics, with an occasional A - 16 Atlantic being used.
The term acronym, although said to have originated some time in the 1940s, took time to achieve dictionary recognition. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
In 1935, Lohmann proposed his refined structural model of ATP, which was confirmed in the late 1940s after the introduction of new X-ray crystallographic techniques. Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
The film successfully recaptures the joyful style of the 1940s Hollywood musical.
Introduced to western Texas and southern New Mexico in the 1940s, aoudads are now so populous that it is feared that their presence may threaten the native desert bighorn sheep.
At the same time, however, the fractured identity described as "neurosis" in the 1940s also anticipates the fragmentation, multiplicities, and identity politics of postmodernism. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
Did a majority of American film spectators live in large cities before the 1940s, or were small town and country viewers more representative of the overall audience?
She was wearing what looked to be a one-piece swimsuit from the 1940s. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » RE: PROGRAMMING NOTE
He's picked up items ranging from a cloth mailbag to a fire extinguisher to an old newspaper, all in the interest of giving admirers a clearer picture of what life was like in the early 1940s.
But in the same sale a Munnings portrait of a lady on horseback from around 1920 was sold for £860,500, and "The Start" (1940s-1950s), depicting a large field of expectant horses with one prancing out of line, sold for £468,500. Going to the Races, in Art
Gandhi's satyagraha in India, where tens of thousands of villagers defied the British Raj's tax on sail by drying seawater in the 1940s, is another well-known example.
The first lift was installed in the 1940s, making it one of the oldest ski areas in Canada.
The film successfully recaptures the joyful style of the 1940s Hollywood musical.
His analysis is that British socialism took a wrong turn in the 1940s, and that the fuss between private and public sector has no place in a party concerned about the ordinary person.
On the thatched roof above the Plexiglas light bubble and long-dead solar panels is a rainbow wind sock; a sky-blue 1940s truck muralled with latex paint clouds is parked out front amid a patch of lupins, Shasta daisies, Scotch broom, and California poppies. Shampoo Planet
The film successfully recaptures the joyful style of the 1940s Hollywood musical.
Maison Gerard, meanwhile, show a sumptuous pair of Jules Leleu commodes from the 1940s, covered in white shagreen and with sycamore interiors, gilt-bronze mounts and coral-red lacquer tops.
There are little bits of temporary 1940s housing all over London - there was a bomb site in my old road in Greenwich which stayed empty well into the 1980s, which once housed prefabs.
Until the 1940s, the turkey was reared in relatively small numbers - up to 500 to a flock.
Studies done in the 1940s showed that the use of noxious stimuli or counterirritation could produce significant analgesic effects.
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By the 1940s, foresters and loggers had improved their institutional and technological capacities so that they could respond more quickly to sudden demand than had been possible during WWI.
The aqualung opened the underwater world to diving adventurers in the 1940s.
The £200,000 refurbishment of the block, which was farm workers' cottages until the estate was sold and became a hotel in the 1940s, has created 12 single rooms, one twin-bedded room, a communal kitchen and rest room and a laundry.
Jitterbugs on August 2, 16 and 30 provides jive and boogie 1940s'-style classes for all the family.
He was flying alone and performing rolls in a 1940s vintage plane when its wing touched the ground, causing the crash.
The anonymous donor, a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.
‘I can't love you any more,’ I sang in my very best imitation of Bebe Daniels, which isn't very good but then a bass baritone can only do so much in the way of 1940s popular soprano.
He goes into excruciating detail discussing the treatment for tuberculosis in the 1940s and Orwell's physical agonies.
Similar declines in arctic sea ice reportedly occurred at the turn of the 20th century, when the Northwest passage was also navigable, and during the 1940s. Matthew Yglesias » Wednesday Arctic Ice Blogging
It has taken us back to our childhood in Carlisle in the 1940s and 1950s when you were scared to get out of bed in the morning in case your bare feet froze on the lino.
Looking down the street Mother saw Mrs. V.'s daughter Annie walking toward them in a shockingly revealing dress for the 1940s.
The classic espadrille wedge, which first came on the scene in the late 1940s and 1950s, is still practical and elegant.
The phrase "secular stagnation" fell from their lips in the 1940s, even on the eve of the great postwar boom. Follow the Money
Perchlorate is the substance that has served since the 1940s as an oxidizer in solid rocket fuel for more effective propulsion for space shuttles and missiles.
While in high school in the late 1940s, Stephen worked summers with his father, who was a stonemason and bricklayer.
The moffie subculture emerged in District Six in Cape Town during the 1940s and '50s, an inner-city area that truly reflected the idea of a' rainbow nation ', as it was home to people of different ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs during the earlier days of apartheid," he said. IRIN
I was born in the late 1940s and I remember growing up what high hopes and exalted opinion we had of India's future and its leaders.
The 1940s could have represented another stage of regression in this process.
She emigrated to England back in the 1940s and nursed in a Manchester hospital during the War years.
Restoration of the 1940s Hotel Freeman in 2002 has worked similar magic on the shorefront neighborhoods. Mazatlan: why snowbirds keep coming back
He was also president of the York Chamber of Trade and as far back as the 1940s was keen to see Britain going metric, as he felt it would help the country in all ways in the long-term.
Officially only eleven years old in 1945, Socialist Realism continued to condition Soviet cultural policies throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
Now, the barge will ply the canal again, as it once did in the 1940s.
In the 1940s, movies really came of age as a creative art form.
We are witnessing racism of a virulence that we haven't seen in Europe since the 1940s.
This follows in the tradition of the Pre-Raphaelites, the Romantics and, most intriguingly, the British neo-Romantics of the 1940s.
A detailed set of aerial photos taken in the 1940s for oil exploration in northern Alaska has provided the most graphic evidence that the Arctic tundra is turning shrubbier and is Scientific American
There was also a blitz ball, a jitterbug jive dance night, a mock 1940s wedding, a remembrance service and a parade.
In the early 1940s, however, splits appeared in the Fianna Fail government over how beneficial land distribution was.
An independent sultanate before the Dutch takeover in the 1870s and a leader in Indonesia's independence struggle in the 1940s, Aceh was promised autonomy when Indonesia declared independence in 1945.
Spot: "Newsreel" -- In the style of a 1940s newsreel, this ad from the pro-Perry super PAC attacks Gingrich and Romney for their conservative apostasies. HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - This Is Politics
By the 1940s the trend towards uniformity had eased and hair could be worn shoulder length in a pageboy style or curling at the ends or bunched in curls on top of the head.
The old industries didn't need much prompting to disappear: they had been living on borrowed time since the later 1940s, while Germany and Japan re-equipped their shipyards and engineering works.
Since the 1940s, most American municipal water supplies have been routinely dosed with fluoride in a grand attempt to ward off tooth decay.
These are fearless people who are strapped to rigs on the top wing of a 1940s biplane while the aircraft performs a sequence of loops, rolls and turns in front of air show crowds across the country.
There was also a blitz ball, a jitterbug jive dance night, a mock 1940s wedding, a remembrance service and a parade.
The ascendancy of the Steichen sensibility emerged only in the 1940s, when the precisionist-inspired realism of John Rawlings, whose crisply defined color images, at once sharp and subtle (Dahl-Wolfe was his closest counterpart), showed the dress with more clarity and detail than had any previous Vogue photographer. “Show the Dress”
Third, his treatment of fascism in the late 1930s and early 1940s seems too broad.
By the 1940s, he was a Marxist, an anti-fascist and a pivotal figure in Italian neo-realism, all without ever losing his taste for caviar.
In fact, the most powerful "klavern" or local Klan was the Nathan Bedford Forrest Klavern #1, located in Atlanta during the 1940s and Civil War Memory
Hannes Alfvén demonstrated in the 1940s that a new type of collective motion, called "magneto-hydrodynamical waves" can arise in such systems. The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000
Penicillin was first used in the early 1940s and by 1950, most Staphylococcus aureus organisms were resistant to the drug by virtue of elaboration of a penicillinase enzyme.
Russell, best known as the buxom star of 1940s and 1950s movie, died of respiratory failure at her home in Santa Maria, central California, her family said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
This is an interesting collection of memorabilia about Bedford from the 1940s onward.
Current items on display include crude wooden table hockey games, resembling pinball, from the 1940s; playing cards from Turkey, Hungary and China and the classic mah-jongg.
By the 1940s, the mists of time had warped his vision to a few breast-plated harridans, some fire-breathing dragons and a liberal scattering of live animals.
At its peak it employed 50 quarriers but it went into decline in the 1940s.
The term specifically describes activities associated with the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents. Propeller Most Popular Stories
But whatever effect the increasingly combative climate of post-war Britain had on most 1940s poets, I feel that Graham separated himself from that, and his course was neither reactive nor concessive.
His political commentaries reveal much about American leftist politics of the 1930s and 1940s.
The anonymous donor, a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.
Topshop has a cap-sleeved silk minidress at £75 and a little 1940s-style puff-sleeved polka-dot frock at £30.
One of the four horsemen of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1940s, Theodosius Dobzhansky played a crucial role in bridging the gap between theoretical and empirical approaches in genetics.
There is something profoundly disconcerting about these 1940s mugshots and, I suppose, the idea of having a collection of them.
I understand that 1940s attitudes toward these "Mongoloid" children were far less enlightened and humane than they are now. In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson by Sue Erikson Bloland
Also needed are locals wishing to get involved by decorating their home, shop, office or workplace along a 1940s theme for the festival weekend.
In the early 1940s, it became customary to anaesthetize patients with barbiturate injections.
As Hergé re-drew and re-worked his books in the 1940s—eventually, from 1950 onward, with the help of the assistants of "Studios Hergé"—he smoothed away many such burrs. Tintin & Co.
When first purchased in the 1940s and 1950s, many citizens of Philadelphia saw such buildings as architectural monstrosities that needed to be replaced.
This collapsing of historical specificity and political difference — so central to the 1940s faith in universalism and "normality" — stands in sharp contrast to Monty's potentially fascist insistence on ethnic differences and boundary-keeping. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
Breaking up those entities, such as IG Farben, was one of the major policies that happened in the late 1940s in the FRG, under the influence of the Ordo-Liberals, and part of the Wirtschaftswunder. American Mugabe?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
After college, they moved on to literary and academic careers and began a rightward march through the 1940s and 1950s.
In the 1940s and 1950s, another estrogen, diethylstilbestrol, was widely given to Western women early in their pregnancies in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriage.
WHO also played a major coordinating role in controlling yaws in the late 1940s and onchocerciasis, leprosy, and polio in the past three decades.
The practice of appropriating mural surfaces for esthetic purposes goes back, after all, in recent art history to the start of the 1940s.
The number of convicts used in road gangs in Alabama increased rapidly in the late 1940s as demobilization increased the population of young men.
The scent, a fruity-floral blend of Fuji apple, white peach nectar and bergamot, is balanced with white flowers and has base notes of amber, blonde woods and warm sand — designed to capture the come-hither spirit of the 1940s actress. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton Releases Her 10th Celebrity Fragrance
The last weekly Robin documented how in the 1940s Dick Grayson often disguised himself as a young worker to gather information for Batman. Robin—She’s No Lady!
His later style of the 1940s is more abstract and colour becomes the most important factor.
The Hollywood film idols of the 1940s were glamorous figures, adored by millions.
His art dealt with Christian themes either in the form of religious subjects of the 1940s, or in texts taken from the Bible.
All that said, there's a remarkable string of musicals - especially from the 1940s onward - that feature independent, self-supporting women.
Van Meegeren was an outright collaborator during the Nazi occupation of Holland, charges Lopez, pointing to paintings he did in the 1940s under his own name replete with heroic images of the Volksgeist, "the essential spirit of the German people" touted by the Nazis. Powell's Books: Overview
This is made obvious with her props and costumes - vintage 1940s shoes, some with ten-inch spiked heels, black Lycra shorts, long-waisted organdy dresses sashed with a neat taffeta bow.
He worked as a chemist at an enameling company and then owned and operated a small business that made and sold inorganic chemicals, which he sold before moving to Washington in the late 1940s. Frank Creel; Marion Gaines III; J. Paul Hile; Ruth Jones; Russell Kirk; Rita Landers
Traditionally, Nenets have subsisted on nomadic hunting, fishing, and, most importantly, reindeer herding, which was collectivized in the 1930s and 1940s.
Denis, 71, has spent a fortune on his quest since the 1940s.
The kokanee -- also known as landlocked sockeye -- were introduced to Tahoe in the 1940s. Undefined
The convent is part of the Pousadas de Portugal chain of historic hotels set up by the government in the 1940s to rival Spain's parador network of luxury state-run inns. Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
Research on nuclear fusion in the 1940s shifted the focus of plasma research from the stars to laboratories on Earth.
Maison Gerard, meanwhile, show a sumptuous pair of Jules Leleu commodes from the 1940s, covered in white shagreen and with sycamore interiors, gilt-bronze mounts and coral-red lacquer tops.
Have it already inhabited by two tribes of feral 1940s schoolboys? Times, Sunday Times
Directed by Bob Clark (this is great enough to forgive him for Porky's), and written and wonderfully narrated by humorist Jean Shepherd, the film tracks the misadventures of Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), a beamish lad in the 1940s who wants nothing else for Christmas but a Red Ryder BB gun. — Dean Maurer Tonight's TV Hot List: Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
But during the 1940s and 50s the business grew to become a general store selling everything from sweets to string and from fountain pens to firelighters.
His talent was nurtured by his parents who, incidentally, met at a rambling club in the 1940s.
Our California plants were desegregated in the 1940s.
But I am so old that when I was a little boy, six years old, the first time I ever crawled under a car, my stepfather owned a little Buick dealership in a little town in Arkansas where he came from, but we also owned a Henry J-- an old Henry J Kaiser -- (applause) -- and we owned a late 1940s model Jeep. President At Chrysler Jeep Plant Toledo Oh
There was a squat little 1940s Greyhound bus depot. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
Metaldehyde, introduced in the 1940s, is used for gardens and crops. The Sun

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