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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such war raged across 23,000 square miles of Europe. The explosion of men's nerves and brains became as commonplace as death and wounds. Casualties were impossible to assess in the flowing confusion. Four million men were engaged in the business of slaughter, their killing power multiplied by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Greatest Battle | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Schuetz thought he had been hit in an air raid and left for dead. Then he realized he could hear-for the first time in his life with the left ear; better than before with the right. Last week, to the confusion of medicos, Mr. Schuetz's hearing was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: How to Cure Deafness | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Big Ring. The House hippodrome was the wildest show. Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, of Bonham, Tex., utterly lost control of his cageful of snarling Democrats, and Minority Leader Joe Martin, of North Attleboro, Mass., quietly turned loose his herd of trumpeting Republicans. Trampled in the confusion were the hopes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hippodrome | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Died. Josef Alexander Pasternack, 58, bushy-haired symphonic and radio maestro; of heart disease, during a radio rehearsal; in Chicago. In order to avoid confusion with Cinema Producer Joe Pasternak, he always used his middle initial.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

In his latest theatrical venture, Edward Everett Horton has turned Casanova. If there is any one actor who is not the great lover type, it is he; but still, he handles the part with surprising adeptness and conviction. Although shot with the conventional misunderstandings and confusion of names which are...

Author: By H. W. Y., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/8/1940 | See Source »

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