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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Machinist's Mate. Dave sold newspapers and Christmas trees, fished in houseboat-bordered Lake Union to piece out the family fortunes. His mother worked in a laundry. He never forgot waiting for her outside its steamy windows while she drudged on late at night. Eyeing the ornate houses of the rich on Capitol Hill, Dave resolved to be as good as any of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Herdsman | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

After the baby's birth, Elizabeth herself had had a restless night; the crowds gathered outside were urged again & again to be quiet. By Tuesday headlines in most of the papers proclaimed that mother and child were "both doing well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Both Doing Well | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Kingdom. All of these might be included, but the name that he would bear if he became king would be decided by his grandfather, the present king. At any rate, Elizabeth proclaimed to friends, whether she won out on the name or not, "I am going to be the mother of this child, not its nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Both Doing Well | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Five years ago a neurosurgeon in Houston, her home town, operated and removed a scar from the brain, but she was better only temporarily and then got worse. One day early this month, Elizabeth, now 18, and her mother climbed out of a plane at Montreal's Dorval Airport. Like many another sufferer from epilepsy, Elizabeth was headed for McGill University's famed affiliate, Montreal Neurological Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chance for Elizabeth | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Team. In the institute's eight-story stone building on the slope of Mount Royal, Dr. Wilder Penfield, the director and one of the world's top brain specialists, set to work with his staff. Explained Dr. Penfield to Elizabeth's mother: "This problem can only be solved by teamwork. You can't hope to win nowadays by any other method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chance for Elizabeth | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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