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Word: consisting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allan Roy Dafoe told the Women's Auxiliary of the West Virginia Medical Association that the Dionne quintuplets consist of two matched pairs and an odd, unmatched baby; that according to the laws of genetics they should have been sextuplets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...guess. Authors Davies & Steiger believe that half the Russian air force is held there, that the Far Eastern Red Army has not been appreciably drained for war in the west. Naval information is even vaguer than military, but in 1939 Russia's Pacific Fleet was reported to consist of 18 destroyers, 90 submarines, 80 coastal motorboats, 32 gunboats, 75 mosquito boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Siberian Bastion | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...part, the Glee Club will fellow up its recent appearance at the Pops on Harvard night with a concert at the Esplanade, July 31. Director G. Wallace Woodworth will lead the Glee Club and Esplanade Orchestra in a program of serious music, the second half of which will consist entirely of three choruses from Brahm's "Requiem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra, Glee Club Enjoy Successful Summer Season | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...membership of the committee will consist of one representative from each House, chosen by various House committees, and consisting of men who have had the most experience in hiring bands and running dances. From among these members a chairman and assistant chairman will be chosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGULATION FOR DANCES PROPOSED | 7/10/1942 | See Source »

With thermometers soaring around 100, sweating correspondents wrestled with pronunciations of such words as Rajagopala-chariar, shopped for sun helmets attended by troops of fortune tellers, gem dealers and snake charmers. Strange too are the problems of Indian newsgathering. Press conferences are rare. Official press releases consist typically of bulletins on rice culture, assembly debates, the comings & goings of maharajahs from the Viceroy's palace. Troubling also are the country's vast distances, with prospects of a Jap attack that might come anywhere or everywhere on a 1,500-mile front from Ceylon to Calcutta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Correspondents in India | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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