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Word: ch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked, along the harbor looking toward the sea," the girl continued, "the Cháteau d'If, barely visible in the shimmering distance, made you think of the adventures of the Count of Monte Cristo. You could take a little boat and sail out toward the Cháteau. And you would go under the great bridge which opened and shut with a clanging roar as if to snap up the boats which passed below. Near by were the big ships, for there the water is deepest. Behind lay the little fishing boats with their many-colored sails being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Aux Armes, Citoyens! | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Poets, President and Mexico | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...artist who produced the little Nipponese angels (above). Peculiarly satisfying to the Chinese is also the kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow. To the Chinese Wang is now in his proper niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese War Posters: PAYING BACK THE JAPANESE | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...lineup: g. Keene; rf, Forster; lf, Harbison; rh, Butcher; ch, Slingerland; lh, Mallory; ro, Gifford; rl, Apthorp; cf, Calhoun; H. Drake; le, Berman...

Author: By Joseph H. Sharlitt, | Title: Booters Play With Changes in Lineup | 11/6/1942 | See Source »

...M.I.T.: g, Rosenberg; rfb, Coberdale; lhb, Loven; rh, McFaull; ch, Carpenter (Captain); lhb, Chapin; ro, La Valle, Engelman, Slawson, Krulee; ri, Heckel; cf, Abbott; li, Momose; lo, Ihade, Lednicky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SOCCER SQUAD DOWNS TECH BOOTERS | 11/5/1942 | See Source »

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