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Word: ax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Jerry Callanan permanently on the sidelines with an injury, Bob Ax-tell has been moved to catcher from the outfield and in several weeks ought to become accustomed to his new berth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLY GAMES SHAPE LINEUP OF '43 NINE | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

...play concerns a Scotswoman (Pauline Lord) who, some 20 years before the play begins, was accused of some Lizzie-Bordenish ax murders and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancee's godfather spots the mother. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped, the play becomes fairly dramatic. But a play should become fairly dramatic before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...mindful of the fact that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Senator Ashurst's Brother | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Picturing himself as a sentry who "sees approaching a force which frankly and openly seeks to destroy," Jimmy thundered: "Upon this interpretation of my duties as a diplomat I am content to risk my official head. If I be wrong then let the executioner be summoned and wield his ax. Head chopping is just an old family custom with the Cromwells anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Head of Cromwell | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains probably less of anything but honest thought than any other subsequent political writing, Lincoln's prose often has the unsought and surprising force of fine literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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