Word: devotee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After 21 years in Sing Sing, Warden Lewis E. Lawes this week announced that, like most of the prison's inmates, he now wanted to retire, "to devote myself to many causes which have long interested me." Among them will be more sound books (20,000 Years in Sing...
For months Navy wardrooms and gatherings have buzzed over what, if anything, was to be done about Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, whose Broadway column had announced he would devote his August vacation to serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve (Intelligence). Accustomed for generations to razzing the Army on its personnel...
5. He wanted to devote his life to science.
Over 500 alumni of the Business School, gathering for their eleventh annual meeting on Saturday, will devote the entire day to a study of national defense problems. Not only business problems dealing with production requirements, but also labor and government problems will be discussed by authorities in these fields.
"As you see, I am in my eighty-fifth year. I have shot my bolt, I have done my work. War or no war, my number is up. . . . When I was a little boy . . . I saw in the newspaper every day a column headed 'The Civil War in America...