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Word: fading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only a man harrowing clods . . ." wrote Poet Thomas Hardy. "Yet this will go onward the same though Dynasties pass. . . . War's annals will fade ... ere their story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Though Dynasties Pass | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Through the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, east to Wisconsin, on to New York, rolling, rolling; the landscape still brilliant with autumn, but the greens no longer fresh, the reds beginning to fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Story of a Train | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Down but not out, Lowell saw its chances for victory fade further into the distance in the third quarter, as the puritan powerhouse racked up another six points on a Dreher-to-Davenport pass from the six-yard stripe. The final score same in the closing, minutes when Jack Carpenter smashed off tackle for six yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP SWAMPS LOWELL 25-0; ELIOT, DUNSTER IN TIE | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

...pageant involving Elizabeth, Drake, and a handful of courtiers. Says Elizabeth at the end of the show's first half: "This is our message for all time. . . . The sea is ours, our friends to share it. our enemies to shun it, our men to man it." While lights fade into a cyclorama of a British battleship riding a surging sea, spectators join in singing Land of Hope and Glory, burst into loud applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Better Business | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...trips, collects dolls. Recently she was given a new Plymouth convertible coupe by the agencies in recognition of her anniversary. She calls it "Sheila." Proud of her achievements, Irna still isn't happy. "I'd give it all up," she says, "if the right man came along." (Fade up to Karen Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Script Queen | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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