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Word: heavensent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Air Trucks. Any scheme to employ planes on such a grand scale is as heroic in composition as a Beethoven symphony, as knotty in detail as differential calculus. It is a task for poetic imagination far grander than Tennyson's in Locksley Hall, which 100 years ago "saw the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Cargo Planes | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

The evidence he turned up made him less skeptical. Mrs. Carr was held while her fingerprints were sent to FBI headquarters in Washington. FBI reported that pious Mrs. Carr had a record dating back to 1891. She had done time in at least three prisons for big & little swindles. Shortly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Her Favorite Charity | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

The Long Arm. In the larger social heavens of the U.S., Hollywood's star is in the ascendant. Manhattan's cafe society has helped bring new money and old money together. The occupation of moviemaking has also taken on prestige-especially since the late '20s, when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bagdad-on-the-Pacific | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

When the public visits the Observatory this year during the annual series of "Open Nights," it will be able to peer at the heavens through a telescope with a nine inch aperture recently given by Dr. James R. Jewett, professor of Arabic, emeritus.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Telescope Given Observatory by Jewett | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

America is committed to the destruction of Nazidom, to a policy of victory though the heavens fall. With each new move of the Administration, more ground slides out from under the non-interventionist cause. As the country rapidly nears a definite plump on the belligerent side of the fence, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After Armageddon | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

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