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Word: brainchild (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Study! Aim! Fire!", brainchild of A.S.T.P. Companies A and B, will be presented for the first time on Saturday, February 26 at Rindge Technical High School Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'STUDY! AIM! FIRE!' OPENS NEXT WEEK | 2/18/1944 | See Source »

...occasions, first at the Versailles conference, again before the League in 1923, and finally at the Disarmament Conference of 1932, the French submitted carefully worked out proposals for an international police force. The other nations were officially uninterested. But in England Lord Davies paid attention to the French. His brainchild, the New Commonwealth Society, of which Churchill became British Section President in 1936, stressed an international air police, to be twice as strong as the strongest national air force. Its unique feature was an international intelligence service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREEDOM FROM ATTACK: International Police | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...till the rush hour passed. Fervently he wished for some sort of apparatus which would protect him reasonably well from the all too accurate thrusts of the parasol brigadiers, so when he arrived back at his little den in Weld he set to work on the plans of his brainchild...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Invents Face-Saving Mask | 1/5/1943 | See Source »

...sung with two demand encores by Carolyn Rochl. Quite as applaudable in a merrier tone were the theme "Talk of the Town" and "I Went to College." Dorothy Weaver, who wrote and sang "When Love Is in Your Heart," comes in for honorable mention. Running through Marjorie Wolfe's brainchild were the thin themes of The New Yorkers visiting the college to do a write-up and the Wellesley girl's incessant search...

Author: By J. M., | Title: PLAYGOER | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...Victory Tax," brainchild of Committee Chairman Walter F. George of Georgia, will be collected from payrolls beginning Jan. 1. The rate: a flat 5% on all income above $12 a week, with everybody paying except farm help and domestics. Single persons will get 25% of this tax back after the war, married persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big, Mean, Tough | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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