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Word: laking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is ironically illustrated by what happened at the local Army camp on the lake front. As the radio flashed that Pearl Harbor was being attacked by the Japanese, cracked one soldier: "Orson Welles is drunk again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...long-time reader of TIME and admirer of its accuracy, I was amazed to read (Nov. 17) that isolationist propagandists Eggleston, Feagin and Stewart "found . . . congenial company in . . . the $1,000,000 Indian temple transported by the Maytags from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to Lake Geneva." This statement is completely false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Stewart (of Scribner's Commentator and The Herald] were entertained at a, big picnic on the Maytag estate. But no Maytag was present, the Maytag house was closed, and no Maytag was aware of the political views of the guests. Hostess was a Mrs. Vickers, widow of a Lake Geneva dentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Disclosure. In Salt Lake City, a speaker informed the Western Association of Teachers of Speech that breast-fed babies had the best chance of becoming forceful public speakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...movies also clearly proved that Referee Austen Lake blew his whistle before Seymour even received the ball, which he subsequently carried over the goal line, only to be called back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Movies Confirm Lake Show Eli Touchdown Illegal | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

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