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Word: grandchildren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, once terrorized by gangsters, where our grandchildren pay homage to our memorial monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Look Out, Chicago | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...replied: "One hundred and fifty years old, Sire." The King coughed, laughed, coughed, said, "In what year were you borned?" When Anna said, "1712," the King asked, "How many years shall you be married?" When Anna replied, "Several years," the monarch thought hard, finally roared out, "How many grandchildren shall you have by now? Ha, ha! How many?" The King had won. It put him in such good humor that he took Anna by the hand and led her to his wives and his 67 children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romance of the Harem | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...hair covered with a black skullcap, looked them over sharply. Isaac (by a previous wife) had begotten so many children he could hardly keep track of them. Of a total of 16, ten-Arriga, Theodore, Jascha, William, Mischa, Pearl, Lisa, Bessie, Rebecca and Fishel-were in the U.S. Ten grandchildren were either professional musicians or on the way to that calling. Isaac's favorite son is Mischa Mischakoff, who earns about $25,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Fishbergs and Borodkins | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...clever to be silent, that it is smart poli tics to manipulate the nomination." In Ripon, birthplace of the Republican party, he put the argument on a scholarly plane, in a speech acclaimed by Columnist Marquis Childs as "one of the vital docu ments in our political history. . . . Our grandchildren may be reading it in history books 50 years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Five-a-Day | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...from Adler's definitions that we won't have world peace until we have a world state. A "short-term pessimist," Adler thinks the world state will not come into being for some 500 years. Yet Adler thinks we can work toward the objective, even though our grandchildren's grandchildren will not live to see it. He calls this "longterm optimism." It is as if somebody were trying to console a weary harvester in a 15th-Century grainfield by hinting that in the 20th Century a mechanical reaper and binder might be invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blue-Sky View | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

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