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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In other words, I am one of I-don't-know-how-many-thousands of your newsstand buyers-and, speaking for all of us, we feel left out of things.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Then he grew sarcastic. Personally, he said, as the Prime Minister scowled, he trusted Mr. Chamberlain's good faith, but "it will be a very hard thing for the Government to say to the House of Commons, 'Be gone. Run off and play. Take your gas masks with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reverse | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Still the messages kept coming. One reported that 38 persons, one a woman, had gone down. This was signed off with "Okay, big boy." Another message charted a strange position: "Eighteen days out of Calcutta, 40 miles south of Hialeah." (Forty miles south of Hialeah race track lie the Everglades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S O Stinks | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

When Tourist Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went for a swim at San Sebástian beach in Franco's Spain, he was tapped by a Spanish cop, who quoted Spain's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Into a Hanford, Calif, hospital, interns brought Leonard Henton Cardwell, 58, graduate of a Tennessee medical college, once a practicing physician, now a greengrocer. He had tried to kill himself. Doctors examined him, found a bullet was lodged below his heart. Only chance for Grocer Cardwell's recovery seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unwilling Patient | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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