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Word: hails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to the Inaugural Ball, reported drama in the hush before the President's entrance, when a sea of faces turned toward the presidential box and the only sound was the faint worrying of a guitar's strings as the Marine Band waited to strike up Hail to the Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hail to the Chief | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...darkness, rain and hail which followed, emergency floodlights were set up. As ambulance sirens wailed, the people of Warren found awful things in the rubble-402 injured men, women & children, and the bodies of 53 dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Big Blizzard | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...nation's best golfers shivered and pulled on wool mittens between shots. It was hardly the weather they had expected for the $15,000 Los Angeles Open, played down the sleek Riviera Country Club course. High winds raised hob with tee shots, and one afternoon came bursts of hail and sleet-and then snow. Defending Champ Ben Hogan (TIME, Jan. 10) started off as badly as the weather, and got worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: High Wind at Riviera | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Connolly is chiefly concerned with "the artist," and with what makes him tick, and stop ticking. Why, asks Connolly, does young "Mr. Shelleyblake" write a first novel that the critics hail as bursting with "promise"-only to find that in his next novels young Shelleyblake fails to deliver the promised goods? Is the broken promise the fault of Shelleyblake himself, or of his critics, or of the world in which he writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Kills Cock Robin? | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Unfaithfully Yours (20th Century-Fox) was written, produced and directed by Preston Sturges, whose films have often been noted for novelty and freshness (Hail the Conquering Hero) as well as for questionable taste (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). This one is a brilliant idea for a two-reel comedy dragged out for nearly five reels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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