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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heartened by such new facilities for geriatric surgery, Dr. Toma says: "We hear and read so much about the ghastliness of old age, of the crippled and pain-racked bodies. I don't think much of this is necessary. I think we can do for the old-timers just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operating on Oldsters | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Besides Studio One (sponsored by Westinghouse), Miner also produces for CBS-TV The Goldbergs and a weekly children's show, Mr. I. Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m.), which is a good deal better than its coy title. He sees TV as more closely related to the theater than to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Green Thumb. He also campaigned tirelessly to educate Southerners in the economic importance of growing timber on submarginal Texas farm land. While his own companies planted more than they cut on their 250,000 acres, they gave farmers about 2,000,000 pine seedlings a year to rebuild depleted timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Mister East Texas | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

During its four months on Guadalcanal the division was almost written off several times. When asked whether the hard-pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The movies kept almost everybody on Pavuvu from going rock-happy. A well-rounded starlet's appearance on the screen brought cries of "Back it up!" Then the operator would oblige by rewinding it and showing the female again. When any heroine displayed signs of falling in love the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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