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Word: er (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both novels) is as old as the Book of Ruth. The story of Frenchman's Creek seems an even more universal legend. If one forgets Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Miss du Maurier can vindicate her unoriginality by quoting Pope: What oft was thought but ne'er so well express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bull's-Eye for Bovarys | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare, interviewing Spanish Foreign Minister Ramón Serano Suñer twice in two days, tried to counterpoise his own influence to that of the German Ambassador. But probably the military strategy of the Axis (see p.12), and not diplomatic conversations, would determine the duration of peace in Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Neutral Nervousness | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...officers elected will be President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasur- er, and two members-at-large, all of whom will constitute the executive council, and may appoint two additional members-at-large. Five delegates will be chosen for the convention, which is being held at Harvard from December 27 to 30, and which will merge the various liberal interventionist student groups into a united national organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Liberal Union Meets To Elect Officers Tonight | 12/9/1941 | See Source »

...Here's your chance to pack a little of the romantic wallop from 'Down Argentine Way' into your own personality! Remember those dashing Gauchos free-riding o'er the Argentine pampas? DOBBS has copied their broad-brimmed hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: National Shopper | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...wildest-&-woolliest commercial airline in the world connects Free China with the outside world, lightheartedly o'er-leaping beaconless jungles and merciless Japanese. The Chinese call it the Middle Kingdom Space Machine Family; to foreigners it is known as China National Aviation Corp., operated by far-flung Pan American Airways in partnership with the Chinese Government. CNAC, a collection of seasoned pilots and even more seasoned planes, takes in its stride adventures which would not be believed if seen in the movies. Last week CNAC told a tale which topped its bravura career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: Space Machine Patched | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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