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Word: discoverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The worst of it was that I couldn't enjoy the staff's medical talents myself because of acute dehydration." Kenyon explained bemusedly last night. "Its extremely encouraging to discover, however, that red blood flows in your veins," he added.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH, No Vampire but Out for Blood, Seeks Feminine Pulse-Encouragers | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

¶ Health authorities at Farmington, Me. were disturbed to discover that Mrs. Rita Brown, to whom the body of her G.I. son (killed three years ago in the Battle of the Bulge) was returned by the Army last November, was still keeping it in her parlor. Mrs. Brown explained that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

At the end of the first act of Peter Grimes, the applause was tentative. It came as something of a blow to the Metropolitan Opera audience to attend an opera written in English, only to discover that you still had to read the libretto to find out what they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wagner in a Sou'wester | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Prospective advertising men can discover copious openings in virtually all phases of the huckstering trade save the focus-point-the agency, three leading advertising figures told a full house at the Placement Office's second career conference at Adams House last night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advertisers Give Future Hucksters Lowdown on Jobs | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

This play attempts to look at the situation from the point of view of the Jew, to discover his motivations, his thoughts, his conflicts. In the process it has managed to give the figure of Shylock a genuine dignity and impressiveness which, at least to this reviewer, the character in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shylock and His Daughter | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

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