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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time now for my great-grandchildren." But with it all she keeps sending her pictures to Manhattan galleries: "If they wait long enough I get up a big batch of 20 or so, but they're apt to phone before then and ask what I've got done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma's Imaginings | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...next thing I knew 'twas full of people. I had to fill it up. I guess I wanted company, some commotion." Her daughter-in-law says Grandma's interest in painting is what keeps her young. Grandma disagrees. "I don't know as it done any more good than if I went down and cleaned the cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma's Imaginings | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...quarter, Hunchy plunged off tackle, sprinted 60 yards before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway down the field. Final score: Yankees 21, Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football in a Heat Wave | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Rush Season, in Mexico City, Factory Manager Emilio Checa addressed a quarter-page newspaper ad to Teléfonos de Mexico: "Forty days ago we reported our telephone out of order. Won't you please have something done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Cromer, England, Edward Atkins explained to police: "I shot my wife because she told me to, and I have always done what I was told." In Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, José Licea explained why he had shot his sister-in-law: he had mistaken her for his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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