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Word: heir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Nancy Traylor Souder, 29, wife of wealthy Kansas Oilman J. Robert Souder, ex-wife of Chicago Packinghouse Heir Nathan Burton Swift, and daughter of the late Melvin Traylor, organizer of the Bank for International Settlements and near-Presidential candidate in 1932; by falling or jumping from a Manhattan hotel window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...said John Lewis in solemn basso. "We have to fight this war with human beings. Human beings are subject to all the ills to which the flesh is heir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...captor was a Shawnee named Big Turtle. He carved a little turtle on Sala-thiel's breast, named him Little Turtle, made him his heir. In the Shawnee village were other white captives, and though Salathiel lived the life of an Indian for the most part, a captive white preacher taught him to read & write fluent English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Installment | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: End of The Old Lady | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...purse seems heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To skip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Tax Soliloquy | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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