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Word: jacket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peach trees looked in the spring. Pastula sang softly until his throat became too parched. Dixon, impatient, worried but cheerfully profane, decided to head for islands in the south. He drew a chart on a piece of canvas. With the salvaged line of rope and a life jacket, he rigged up a sea anchor which steadied the bobbing raft when winds were contrary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...musical history of the last hundred years. On this fact most critics agree, but when they attempt to go beyond the fact to determine exactly wherein his greatness lies or squeeze the amorphous mass of symphonic hodge-podge that he left behind into a coherent critical straight-jacket, then there is a great variety of opinion. The Mahler cycle which is being broadcast every alternate Sunday at 12:30 by the Radio City Music Hall symphony orchestra is a very courageous and worthwhile undertaking, but the interpretations dispensed by the announcer during the pauses are for the most part...

Author: By R. W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 2/18/1942 | See Source »

...from an upstate farm, who quickly gets himself a job with one of the best wholesale houses in the city-Chevalier & Deming Post. Young Ames has freckles and unruly hair through which in moments of stress he rakes his rural fingers. He is wearing the same brown country-tweed jacket (an Edmonds property) that Dan'l Harrow wore in Rome Haul. He also has indefatigable industry, a bounding business precocity, and a talent, rather uncommon in country boys of 18, for slipping bribes where they will do the most good. "Do you remember my saying you were an unscrupulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exalted Alger | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Larry Allen was wearing a Mae West life-jacket; he cannot swim a stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDITERRANEAN: Galatea & Allen Go Down | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Striptease. In New Hampton, Iowa, a farmer wearing a suit of underwear, a shirt, jacket, two pairs of overalls, a pair of socks, a pair of shoes, and a hat stepped too close to his soybean harvester. He was left with hat, shoes, one sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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