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Word: dunne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mere Puppets. The rebels insisted on a showdown. They picked Minnesota's 236-lb. Roy Dunn, who calls himself "a country politician," to oppose Scott. For 4½ bitter hours, speaker after speaker rose to fling recriminations at Dewey and Scott. West Virginia's Walter Hallanan opened up for the prosecution: "An election was lost because of stupidity, arrogance and cockiness . . . We've been mere puppets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Battle of Omaha | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Investigation later proved that the bottle had toppled from the room of Frederick C. Dunn '51. But the damage had already been dose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soph Snares Fourth - Floor Pass, Wins Free Wine Jug | 1/27/1949 | See Source »

...storing up during the long run of "I Remember Mana." This is not to say she overacts. She makes the most of her opportunities, but not at the expense of her fellow players who prove, anyhow, that they can look out for themselves. Althea Murphy as Ellic Dunn, Robert Harris as Boss Mangan, and Michael Sivy as the burglar are especially good. Polly Rowles' Lady Utterwood gets into the right stride in the third...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also surprised at the "fanatic patriotism of Americans, the constant harping on the American heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Thirst | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Died. Major General William Carey Lee (ret.), 53, hard-bitten founding father of the U.S. Army's Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 5, 1948 | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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