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Word: mothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty good. Joe's last name was Majczek. Not all Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Rags & Riches | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...When the Mother's away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

...Great?" When Mahatma Gandhi was in London in 1931 to plead for Indian independence, a small girl started to ask for his autograph. Then she drew back shyly before the strange little dhoti-clad man with a cavernous mouth, jutting ears and scrawny neck. She looked up at her mother and asked: "Mummy, is he really great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...what had begun as an open air "Sunday School Teachers' Assembly" for 40 young people (two weeks of clean living and right thinking for $6) had expanded into an association that ran a school of theology, a correspondence-school university and a publishing house. To the "Mother Chautauqua" pavilion by the lake came U.S. Presidents, reformers, topnotch writers, singers, and actors-a salable, satisfying mixture of uplift, entertainment and celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uplift under the Big Top | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Great Expectations. In Oklahoma City, Officer E. W. Lawson forgave a woman driver three traffic violations in one block when she explained that she had just discovered she was going to become a mother. In Louisville, Speeder Ernest L. Woods assured the judge that he was transporting an expectant mother, got fined $5 when she turned out to be a spitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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