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Word: misunderstood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week by Dr. Frederick William Haskell McKee of Manhattan's Park Ave. He strapped $2,300-worth of radium in three narrow, inch-long tubes to a woman patient's leg (to treat a small cancer) and told her to go to his office rest room. She misunderstood him and went to the hairdressers' instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Louder, Please | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...month been fluttering shyly around the sticks because M.G.M. lacked confidence in its box-office aerodynamism. Reasons: the picture's lack of marquee names, the originality of its story. Lost Angel is a remarkably touching, tragicomic treatment of one of the world's sure-fire themes: the Misunderstood Child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, was "irritated" that anyone could have misunderstood its full-page MacArthur picture ad in various magazines and-newspapers as a political endorsement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Groundswell | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...Drinkers are more moody, cynical, argumentative, stubborn, pessimistic and restless than teetotalers. Drinkers feel more misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Drinking Man | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Doctrine of Supply. The Japanese Navy has an Occidental background, but its functions are peculiarly Japanese and are often misunderstood by Westerners. Japan's greatest naval figure, Heihachiro Togo, served the apprenticeship to his trade in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Come Out and Fight | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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