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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point began as mad a scramble as war ever witnessed in a Harvard classroom. Man and beast locked in a struggle of obstinacy while students held onto their seats and gave vocal vent to their reactions. The professor lunged at the animal, but with every lunge the dog skillfully evaded him, accompanying each parry with a resounding howl...

Author: By Yaoman Brill, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...nearby camp. At the same time, her brother, a flier on his way to North Africa, stops off just long enough to marry the little girl around the corner. There ensues a confusion which has become almost inevitable in such comedies, and double entendres are bandied about like mad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

...lives in the field, Charlie, he goes through a hell on earth. . . . You go to bed in a slit trench at 11:30 at night and you get up at 3:15 in the morning. When the bivouac is over and you come back to your barracks you are . . . mad at the whole damn world. Then you pick up the paper and read about some civilian war workers out on strike and that really makes you blow your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Searchlights went on, in a mad chiaroscuro. Wrecking crews turned acetylene torches on the cars, to cut away the wreckage, clear the way to those trapped inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wreck of the Congressional | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...face, lusty singing through the streets of Cambridge to the continued amazement of the elder citizenry, not to speak of grubby, small boys who want to know if we are WACS . . . out of the pleasant overtones of cigarettes over coffee after dinner, gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs, the frantic borrowing, lending, and devouring of the hall's incredible stock of Pocket Book murder mysteries ("Death in the Dawn" challenges in popularity the latest Memo change) . . . out of all this, dank, drab and insidious, emanates a contagious disease . . . known...

Author: By Ens. KITTY Crawford, | Title: Creating A Ripple | 9/10/1943 | See Source »

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