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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seated massively at his desk that day in 1905, John Pierpont Morgan seemed lost in thought. He hardly even bothered to look up when his nephew Junius appeared before him with a slim, grey-eyed girl in tow. "Uncle," said Junius, "this is Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Belle of the Books | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...last week, women in schools of education in 16 different states had received the mysterious letters. They were postmarked Seattle, and were signed "One Who Has Observed." They all began: "Dear Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dear Miss | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...first report of such letters came from Kentucky three weeks ago, then from other states. The sender, whoever he was, gave the stunt a chain-letter twist by urging "dear miss" to send copies to five or six other "innocent and unsuspecting young people." Who in Seattle had it in for the U.S. public-school system? A crackpot, was one likely answer. Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington, thought that too much time and too many postage stamps were involved; it sounded more like Communists to her. Last week the National Education Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dear Miss | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Married. George Sanders, 42, cinemactor (The Moon and Sixpence, Forever Amber); and Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, thirtyish, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, former wife of Hotel Magnate Conrad N. Hilton; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...this session to do the same thing, but the others either remain in committee or have already been reported out unfavorably to the legislature. Senator Joseph A. Melley introduced this measure in support of a petition by the "Massachusetts Citizens Committee for the Repeal of Proportional Representation," headed by Miss Edna Spencer of Cambridge. Anti-PR forces in the House are led by Representative John J. Toomey, also of this city, who has introduced his own PR repeal bill-House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Measure for Measure | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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