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Word: dixons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.C.L.A.'s Professor Dixon Wecter; to write "a history of the Roosevelt family in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guggenheim Fellows | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Kirkland capitalized on height to win, with Don Lutze and Tex Meyera working well together at the net. Other members of the Deacon's team were Jack Eberle, Carter Leslie, Jack Dixon, and Tyler Peabody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED DEACONS WIN VOLLEY BALL TITLE | 3/27/1942 | See Source »

Back in Pearl Harbor again last week, Dixon told reporters: "I'm going back to that island some day. It's better than anything Dorothy Lamour ever dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...there were Japs," Dixon explained, "we didn't want to be crawling." But there were no Japs, only a deserted copra hut. In this the men slept. All their adventure now lacked was a shapely native girl to find them the next morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...This the Hill? Is This the Kirk? Paddling with the last of their energy, the three men made for shore. Pastula screeched when a shark struck his hand. "Hell with the shark," Dixon roared. "Row." At sundown they grounded on the beach, then found that they could scarcely walk because their legs were so cramped. Dixon's hip refused to straighten out, but even so he forced his crew to march up the beach in military fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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