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Word: doublet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor-Manager Maurice Evans, specialist since 1935 in such classic doublet & hose roles as Romeo, Hamlet, Richard II, Falstaff and Macbeth, broke a theatrical tradition. For The Browning Version (see THEATER), he made his first Broadway appearance in what he called "an honest-to-God pair of pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. Oak Ridge's facilities, many of which were moved from Cambridge when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location not sufficiently free from dust and artificial lights to permit optimum conditions for astronomical observation, includes a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch refleflctor, and a 61 inch telescope with spectroscopic equipment. Oak Ridge is now the Department's headquarters for systematic photographing of the Northern...

Author: By Walde PROFFITT Jr., | Title: Cambridge Is Center of Widely Scattered Research Empire Departments of Astronomy, Art, Botany, Biology Have Distant Outposts | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

...much farther than this into The King's General to know that Daphne du Maurier has again struck pay dirt in the same lode that produced her best-selling Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her new novel (the Literary Guild's January selection) is a hose-and-doublet pageant of the English Civil War (1642 to 1646) for which Miss du Maurier's agent has whispered loudly to Hollywood that $250,000 will do. The chief characters of The King's General are mostly out of English history; .heir lusty, gusty goings-on are mostly Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beloved Half-Wit | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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