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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fulton County jury sat in Atlanta's county courthouse last week to consider the death of the famed author of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Cummings, with his ninth straight recording on the turntable, relented. "I never went for Mule Train" he explained mildly. "The only way to get my fans around to my way of thinking was to play the tune to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Whiplash | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...tour over and the debt paid, 22-year-old Rafael was appointed resident conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1942, two years after his father's death, he was promoted to permanent conductor. Since then, young Kubelik has built the Czech orchestra from 85 to 120 pieces, raised its critical rating from fair to excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Home Abroad | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Last week, in a Manhattan hospital, death came to Bishop Manning at 83. For his final sermon as Bishop of New York, he had chosen a text (I Corinthians, 16:13) that might well be his epitaph: "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fast in the Faith | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Czarina (in 1916) was prophetically grim: made of blackened steel and poised on four bits of shrapnel, it contained only a miniature painting of the Czar and Czarevitch Alexis with staff generals on the Eastern front. Two years later the imperial family was to be shot to death in a cellar at Ekaterinburg, and in four years Fabergé himself, possibly the last of the great luxury craftsmen, was to die in exile in Lausanne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Imperial Eggs | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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