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Word: furiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students, who were roomed and boarded by Mistress Eaton, in furious tones which have a familiar ring berated her for "ungutted mackeral" and "hasty pudding containing goat's dung." Unlike her successors, she frankly confessed deficiencies in the cuisine and explained that "the students and the swine have share and share alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SILHOUETTES | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...last the voters' position was clearing. For the first time in U. S. history, U. S. citizens were being asked to judge between the State's rights and the citizen's. That such a historic decision was due to be made in 1940, of all furious, distorted years-this imminent fact stretched up as the major news of the day. Voters this year, if never before, could cast their votes and mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Issue | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Eagles for Britain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Closing in on the islands, the Fleet Air Arm, operating from the carrier Furious, bombed airfields at Marizza and Calato on Rhodes. The cruisers Sydney and Orion rained shells on the island of Scarpanto, blasting an airfield at Makri Yalo and pounding Pegadia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: At Thirteen Islands | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...Furious Sir William once wrote to a friend in the U. S.: "The man isn't born yet who can fight me." Last week he told newsmen: "I shall give the whole facts to the public. . . . The public should know what can happen in this free country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Ebbw Vale Again | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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