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Word: azusa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This young man was Joyce Kilmer . . . Mahwah is one of the few places where George Washington DID NOT sleep. As a matter of fact, he used to pass through here at a good rate of speed . . . And finally Mahwah has all modern improvements . . . So we ask you what do Azusa and Cucamonga have that we don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Rising at Mahwah | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underwater Jet | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard, as the femme sinistre from Boyer's past, is present to add to the intrigue...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

Emigré Boyer's victim is Schoolmarm Olivia de Havilland of Azusa* ("everything from A to Z in the U.S.A."). Against Boyer's liquid-eyed, strong-charm methods she never has a chance: they are married in a jiffy. Wised up by Dancer Goddard, Olivia holds her pretty head so high that her husband realizes he is in love with her. That's all the immigration authorities wanted to know. He gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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