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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days in outlying Chinese cities, Willkie arrived at Chungking's suburban airport in a Douglas piloted by Baltimore-born Moon Chen, first man to complete a flight across the Himalayas. A welcoming crowd of 10,000 was headed by Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, U.S. Ambassador Clarence Edward Gauss and gallant Lieut. General Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Stilwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Foreign News, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Surprisingly didn't rain. Moon came out. . . . About flooded out of bed by rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thru God's Grace | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...master of a schooner carrying war cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering. For the first time in a blue moon Blues Moaner Libby Holman is slated to sing in a Manhattan nightclub-ten years after the fatal shooting of her tobacco-rich husband Zachary Smith Reynolds. Again from Berlin came news that a dancer had found a hot corner in the impressionable heart of Adolf Hitler. Known professionally as La Jana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Most critics agree that, so far, the arts have failed to measure up to the challenge of total war. The literary arts haven't probed any deeper than the kindly sophistry of "The Moon Is Down," while music, judging from the late lamented "Leningrad" symphony, has little more to boast of. One thing is certain, however, the war can't do music much harm...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/7/1942 | See Source »

...Hawaii Moon. In Honolulu, boom days at the maternity hospitals were attributed to the first blackouts of last December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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