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Word: clad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Midnight Sprinkler Shower Starts Yardling Fire Scare | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

...told, she never wholeheartedly gave in to the painful process until she saw her great success in The Strawberry Blonde (with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland). By that time Columbia's style expert, Maggie Maskel, had taught her how to dress, made her shapely, impeccably clad figure a fashion-plate fixture of the women's style magazines. She had even brightened the earth-bound pages of the National Geographic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...fought off the Japanese invasions for centuries. thus, China was never menaced by samurai aggression until the latter part of the nineteenth century. In order to put an end to the chronic invasions of the hostile islanders, as early as 1591, Admiral Yi Soon-sin invented iron-clad warships. With them he annihilated the Japanese wooden fleet. From then on, Korea was at peace until...

Author: By Yongjeung Kim, | Title: Young Chinese Alumnus Sheds Light On American-Japanese Diplomatic Crisis | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

...night last week, as Congress was about to begin debating the arming of U.S. merchant ships, six veiled, mourning-clad women appeared before the Washington house of Chairman Sol Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Women in Mourning | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...grey-clad figure who faced him over the threshold didn't look like a solicitor, though. In fact, Vag decided that his closest counterpart was the bronze gentleman who sat on a marble pedestal in front of University Hall. His prepared speech beginning "I always send my laundry home . . ." died on his lips, and when the gentlemen turned towards the corridor and beckoned him to follow, he hurriedly reached for his coat. There was a curious whistling sensation in his ears, and suddenly he found that he was again facing John Harvard, for there was no doubt about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/15/1941 | See Source »

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