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Word: golden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sufferer from agoraphobia, which has kept him for years from going out of sight of his home; and his second (1914-34) wife, Charlotte Charlton Leonard Gill, 48; at home, in Madison, Wis. His first, Charlotte Freeman, died by her own hand in 1911; his third, Co-ed Grace Golden, divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...golden voice, which has charmed the members of more than two generations of Harvard men, that brought him fame, and last night he proved to the latest generation that his fame was deserved...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: Copeland Proves Wit Still Keen As Famed Professor Turns 80 | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...case of Harvard men completely overgrown with ivy. I am sure the founders of Harvard chose Crimson as the college color with rare foresight, to match the blushes of embarrassment at all the boners pulled by Harvard men. Princeton's Orange and Black symbolize the combination of golden sunshine to light the way to learning, and darkness to shut out snobbishness. That's why I pick Princeton to beat Harvard at anything." --Princeton Sunday News. (Ed. note: Roses are red, violets are blue-- Chaque personne a son propre gout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

...with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that the rewards of their prudence and honest toil shall not be filched from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Senator Ashurst's Brother | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...race of his young life. In his first start over the toughest steeplechase course in the world (4½ miles), he had posted the second fastest time in its history, only one-fifth of a second slower than the record (9 min., 20| sec.) set by Golden Miller in 1934. "It was like riding in a wheel chair," said Jockey Marvin Jones, a 20-year-old Welshman who had never seen the awesome Aintree course before, had been given 48 hours leave from his duties in the Royal Air Force to ride for Lord Stalbridge, whose regular jockey fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Almost as Grand National | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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