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Word: fiancee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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22?. Today almost every French woman has her own personal family war work to do because she has a brother, fiance, husband, father or uncle in the Army who needs cigarets, socks, a sweater, favorite articles of food, regular letters of affectionate encouragement and such efforts as she can make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

One of Dr. Rathbone's tensest cases: a young woman who complained that she trembled, was stiff in the knees and neck, could not sleep. Dr. Rathbone found that the patient was 30, unmarried, that her fiance had lost his job, that she had been financially ruined by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Relax | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Author Vicki Baum this week moved her Grand Hotel from Europe to the Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten carefully disparate characters: a Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chile con Carne | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Last week the young man and his sweetheart accepted congratulations from their friends: they were engaged to be married. Everyone remarked on what a fine couple they made, though some thought that, for a man, the fiance's ears were a trifle small and delicate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother to Son | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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