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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emma moved steadily westward, then veered northward off the Virgin Islands. Meteorologists figured that she would probably keep on going northward-as most Caribbean hurricanes have done before -through a low-pressure trough created by two high-pressure banks. But the "highs" converged so fast that the big 'cane's northward path was blocked. For six hours, she stood ominously still near the Bahamas. When she started to roll again, she headed westward, straight for Florida's southeast Gold Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Two-Punch Emma | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Paul and his committee will try to find out what has been done in the past and recommend to the Council some definite system of class organization improving on tradition where it sees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Begins Inquiry Into Class Organization | 9/26/1947 | See Source »

...situation will gradually let up as there are fewer and fewer veterans, and more and more cash transactions," he added. "Meanwhile, we have done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Shops Swamped Again As Two-Hour Dclays Prevail | 9/25/1947 | See Source »

...heavily to press out the depth, cut it to a sensible length, then polish so it glistens, and you have the current product at the Shubert. The process transforms a dramatic treatise in philosophy into a funny but two-dimensional play, perhaps the best that can be done with. "Man and Superman," which is, after all, something to be read rather than seen. Shaw's rebellious witticisms are served up in the elegant, stylized manner that Gielgud brought to perfection in "The Importance of Being Earnest," and if the audience is delighted, it may also be disappointed in getting this...

Author: By N. S. P., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/23/1947 | See Source »

...dream scene in which the original Don Juan appears and brings out the philosophical content of the play in a long discussion with the Devil, the Commendatore, and Donna Ana, has been cut. In the light of the Evans interpretation of the play, that is all that can be done. The scene is only occasionally funny and hardly dramatic...

Author: By N. S. P., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/23/1947 | See Source »

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