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Word: blaze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look round, the Frenchman loves its blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Bit of a Blow | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Winston Churchill, it appeared, might have yet another blaze of glory. A citizen of Margate proposed a skyscraping statue of Britain's great war leader on the white cliffs of Dover, "illuminated day and night." Its beacon: Churchill's cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...conflict with the Pope. Crowds screamed maniacally when the new Queen appeared in public. The very heavens were said to be outraged by the royal sacrilege; the night sky was rent by speeding, flaming symbols of doom, and tongues of lightning came down to earth to meet the blaze of the fires in which the Catholic martyrs were consumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sophoclecm Tragedy | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...this new edition, the majority from Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. Most of the old Hawthorne favorites are here: Peter Goldthwaite and his hidden treasure, Dr. Rappaccini and his deadly daughter, Ethan Brand and his fiery furnace, the Great Carbuncle shining with its "awful blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hawthorne Revisited | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...week before he got his Illinois diploma (in another blaze of scholastic honors), Chuck Luckman suddenly married the girl he had been going with since his freshman year. This was one of the few times he has given way to impulse. It meant goodbye to architecture. In 1931 few architects could support wives. So he was glad to get a "temporary" salesman's job with Colgate-Palmolive-Peetat$125amonth. From then on his life matched the triumphs of one of his own soap operas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Old Empire, New Prince | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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