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Word: ane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamlet in French. And there was drama. The Scottish Repertory's production of Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, a Scottish morality play written in 1540 and last performed in 1554, was a high point of the festival. There was a production of the André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carnival in Scotland | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...dive, veteran Bill Hewes and Sophomore Harvey Pastel are both potential winners. Two Freshmen, Bob Aaron and Don Ulen, the coach's son, ane slated to swim the breaststroke event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hoopsters to Face Northeastern; Tech Tankmen Oppose Harvard Tonight | 12/16/1942 | See Source »

...usually transmitted by a code sentence of which there are about a dozen. For instance, "Mot a nkele nda, ve atan, atan (Person he not go in house, but outside, outside)" is a warning that there is a leopard on the loose. When the drum says: "A nto ane jomolo, jomolo (He is as weakening, weakening)," it means a tribesman is very ill. When a man has died, the drum taps: "Only folds, folds hands on breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drum Telegraphy | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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