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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Roman Catholic Church is perfectly correct in making immortality its central doctrine, as the primary reason for Our Lord's Incarnation, and in centering its worship upon the Eucharist, the "medicine of immortality." That is the correct Catholic instinct, fulfilling what, from my psychological studies, I have concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Paul Makushak had succeeded, as far as police could learn, in his desire to be alone. No one except his mother had known he was there. His father, Peter, had been told years ago to stay downstairs, and he had stayed, sleeping in the back of his jumbled first-floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Place to Hide In | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Gay and gregarious, Hadden preferred the company of ragamuffins to that of stuffed shirts, liked to give and go to parties, once wound one up by setting out with an air rifle for a rat hunt in a friend's apartment. While editor of TIME he still played baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Posthumous Portrait | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

As the two previous scores indicate, the teams are about as evenly matched as anyone could desire, but with the Tigers enjoying the slight psychological edge of playing at home.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Journey To Jersey for Last Try at Princeton | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

The committee made a last-minute attempt to have Captain Smith change his mind. He refused. He also expressed a desire to "kick in the head" the Providence reporter who had written a story about Mrs. Clauson. When the grand march came, Captain Smith escorted his wife to lead the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Captain & the Sweeper | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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