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Word: ma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealers will quit. Many of the big ones hope to pay the bills with the take from used cars and service. Some well-equipped dealers are even figuring on subcontracted war orders for their ma chine shops. But all saw a future of hard work, little profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: End of a Business | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Nifty and haunting little songs from South Africa, sung for all that is in them, have made Josef Marais (pronounced Ma-ray) a favorite radio balladeer. Over an NBC-Blue network as usual last Sunday at 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. his program, African Trek, opened with a few bars of his theme song, Sarie Marais; but as a special treat this time he sang the whole thing first in Afrikaans, then in English. He could be sure of a bilingual audience, because for almost a year NBC has been sending his program by short wave to the Afrikanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Veld Vet | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Mayer John D. Lynch, John H. Corcoran '18., Russell Gerould '20. Mareus Morton, Jr. '21 L. And A. John Serene, who have all received the blessings of Dean Landis in this campaign, are among the nine men leading the field so far. Acting Mayor Francis L. Sennott is top ma with 2519 first-choice votes, followed by Lynch and Corcoran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANDIS' TEAM FORGES AHEAD | 11/6/1941 | See Source »

...ma'am you ain't," he drawled. "Ah come fum Birmingham in Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Stung Again, Your Majesty | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Although Daniel bests him at the trial, it is Scratch who has the picture's last word. Perched on a rail fence, full of the peach pie which Ma Stone baked especially for the victorious orator, he thumbs jauntily through his address book for a fresh victim. And the person he picks makes any audience gasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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