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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antonio, Emilio Landeros, 6, riding home from school on a bus, started printing a letter: "Dear Santa, I have been good. I want a ..." But the bus had reached his corner. He scurried off, ran around the front of the bus, was struck down by a truck and killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...happy Christmas and New Year I wish for you, Sir Stafford Dear, From one whose Christmas couldn't be leaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Happy Austerity | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Heath's arrangement is to take each slobbering tot onto his knee, ask it what it wants for a present, listen enraptured to its answer, mutter something about "seeing to it", ask the attendant mother if the little dear has been a good child during the year, and finally give it a funny book. Unfortunately the funny books ran out long ago, so all Heath can offer is a cheery laugh and a pat on the back...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Harvard Men Work as Santas in Local Stores | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...Sweet But Very Sad." He was an impatient, young (32) Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He wrote Babs: "These dear good people like W.J.B. [Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan] and J.D. [Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels] have about as much conception of what a general European war means as Elliott has of higher mathematics." Later: ' I am running the real work, although Josephus is here. He is bewildered by it all, very sweet but very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: My Dear Franklin | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Very Reverend and Dear Father:" he wrote last week, "For a period of more than a year, correspondence has taken place between the Fathers of the Provincial Council and myself regarding my position in this hospital and my work in Phoenix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Too Material | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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