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Word: benches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then Author Train has written almost a hundred Tutt stories. Some of them (says Tutt) have become as familiar to lawyers as folk tales, have been cited from the bench as quasi-legal authority, have helped many a candidate pass his bar examinations. In fact, like Sherlock Holmes, Ephraim Tutt has become more famous than his creator. So by writing Lawyer Tutt's autobiography, Author Train was able to achieve more than by writing (or rewriting) his own (My Day in Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legal Fiction | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...mania. With doglike devotion, he has followed the White Sox, the Giants, the Cubs, and a half-dozen other U.S. Major League teams in training and on the road. Ruby owns and wears the uniforms of all the teams he fools with. He spends most of his time bench-warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loony Lieder | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...mayor's office we found a few of the living wounded that our soldiers had pulled out of the wreckage. On a wooden bench lay the thin form of a girl about ten years old. Her black hair was streaked with grey powder plaster. One of her legs was completely wrapped in bandages which our company had placed there. In her two hands she clutched a cracker which a soldier had given her. She didn't move, but only stared at the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...another bench sat a boy about 13, naked save for a pair of drawers. Over his body were red scars where he'd been burned. Our medics had no salve for burns with them, so the boy sat there, shivering from head to foot and in great pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...little girl, not more than eight, sat down on the bench and gently pulled the boy's head down in her lap and stroked his hair. Little bird chirps came from her lips as if she were saying: "Don't cry, don't cry." Chuck Horner was standing by the door with a grim expression on his face. "I never wanted to capture a town more than this in my life. But now. . . ." He made a helpless gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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