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Word: 33rd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt about it became the title of his book on the war in the Pacific: With My Heart in My Mouth. Taylor Is inclined to believe that some sort of rough justice is indicated by the fact that soon after returning unscathed from the Pacific an icicle from the 33rd floor of the TIME & LIFE Building scored a direct hit on his head and laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey arrived in Chicago to become, with 152 others, a 33rd-degree Mason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...33rd degree is purely honorary. Harry Truman is the first President to receive the 33rd degree (Warren G. Harding was named, but died before going through the ceremony). Among the 4,200 honorary 33rd degree Masons: Generals Douglas MacArthur, Mark Clark and Jimmy Doolittle, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton, Publisher Roy Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Mateo Junior College and part-time handyman about Crystal Springs golf course. The policeman's tee shots, true all week, began to go awry and his putter couldn't have been colder if it had been on ice. Towns closed out the match on the 33rd hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anybody's Open | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...President also found time to sit three times for an oil portrait showing him in all the regalia to which he is entitled as a Master Mason of the 33rd degree: silk hat, apron, heavy rings on his fingers. When the picture is finished, it will occupy a place of honor in the Masonic Grand Lodge at St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Back in Stride | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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