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Word: cliff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Crash at Dunkirk | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...never finds out whether or not these suspicions are justified. Husband Grant is such an accomplished liar, poseur and likable bad boy that he fools everybody, including himself. The climax comes when he motors her to her family home for a rest. On a cliff by the sea he apparently tries to shove her out of the car. After convincing her that he was only trying to keep her from falling out of the car, they turn around and head home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Never Get Rich (Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

School started again last fortnight in Dover, most dangerous spot in England, for the first time since Dunkirk. In the teeth of big German guns across the Channel, most of the 1,300 moppets still left in the city emerged from chalk-cliff cave shelters to hour-and-a-half sessions of the three Rs in six shell-scarred schoolhouses (glassless windows were boarded, roofs patched from bomb hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Run, Rabbits, Run! | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...unable to control his feet or his temper, becomes a permanent resident of the camp guardhouse. His favorite chorine (Miss Hayworth) turns up at camp in the wake of an Army officer (John Hubbard). She eventually solves everything by marrying the jailbird. Comic honors go to swivel-tongued Cliff Nazarro, double-talker extraordinary, who spreads utter confusion whenever he opens his mouth. The picture is well done and well directed...

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

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