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Word: lanterns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lantern-jawed Army Air Forces 2nd Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 23, reported missing on duty "in the South American Area," was nine days later found safe in a Brazilian jungle. In Ann Arbor, where the onetime Michigan halfback had hula-hipped himself to All-America fame, his parents offered special masses, got many a wire from Tommy's worried admirers. Anxiety ended, his anxious mother promptly cabled her son ". . . just so he'd know that we knew he was safe and weren't worried any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fortunes of War | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harvard Triumphant | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...addition to taking precautions for possible air raids, Forbes revealed that the duplication of many valuable, but inflammable X-ray shadowgraphs was continuing, and that Fogg Art Museum had received and placed on exhibition many of the lantern slides, books, and photographs which had been removed from the Germanic Museum on the arrival of the Army Chaplain School last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUM PREPARES FOR AIR ASSAULT | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

Died. William Phillips (Cinemactor Tully Marshall), 78, lantern-jawed veteran of Hollywood's silent days; inEncino, Calif. His roles ranged from damp-rotted beachcombers to dyspeptic plutocrats; his biggest hit: as The Covered Wagon's bibulous frontier scout, Jim Bridger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1943 | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Surgeon for a Day | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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