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Word: clan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remember Mama. Nostalgic turn-of-the-century saga of a picturesque Norwegian-American clan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...byproduct of soap manufacture). Whether the process reported by Canada's National Research Council in Ottawa will be adopted commercially depends largely on the efficiency of the workers' digestive apparatus. In any case, no one will protest their exploitation. The workers are microscopic members of the clan Bacillus subtilis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Industrial Microbes | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Parachutes and Stockings. Primemover behind this rise that carried the eleven-store Gimbel chain ahead of arch-rival R. H. Macy & Co. as well as Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores, is greying Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 59, robust, genial patriarch of the Gimbel clan. He had a hunch that the war would boom retail sales. So he turned his buyers loose with instructions to order all they could of consumer goods which would be among the first casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gimbel Moves Up | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...certain member of the clan isn't from Pittsburgh; how come his nickname Intimates as much? By the way, according to schedule this column and the Christmas watch list should come out the same day. All the good news at once, oh, fellows...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: Lucky Bag-- | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

...Most of all," says daughter Katrin, "I remember Mama," Mama is kind, firm, and resourceful, and has four children to look after. There are Katrin, the oldest, who wants to be a writer; Christine, blonde, the prettiest member of the clan; Nels, the young man of the house; and Dagmar, the precocious, animal-loving seven-year-old girl. Naturally, Mama doesn't want her children to fear poverty, so she invents a neat little myth about a bank account. But of course, no one ever "goes to the bank" because Mama always figures a way out of every emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

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