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Word: observerer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polkas & Waltzes. When tomorrow dawned, Colonel Sir Arthur Fremantle, British observer with the Confederate Army, was sitting in the top of a tree, looking out over the field. Under the same tree sat Generals Robert E. Lee and A. P. Hill, planning the day's action and "assisting their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Saw It Happen | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Even simple-minded animals, such as fish, seem to size up situations. Male fish of nest-building species chase other males off their premises. They welcome nubile females. To the human observer it looks as if they judge approaching fish, determine their sex and promise, and act accordingly. But this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Not So Smart | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

"The American Army observer, descendant of a long line of U.S. Army cavalrymen, trotted back down the line and reined in beside me. 'A white horse in the advance guard,' he muttered. 'Officers smoking cigarettes. Troops chattering. No security patrols out on the flanks. We're...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

"Actually, the ride went off smoothly until my horse got tired, sat down and rolled over in an icy stream. Apart from the usual stiffness a 52 kilometer ride-on a giant ex-German cavalry horse-can bring on an amateur horsewoman, I seemed O.K. the next day. Then I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

The critics gasped, too. "This film," said the Observer, "has all the morals of an alley cat and the sweetness of a sewer." Said the Sunday Pictorial: "A piece of nauseating muck." Wrote Steven Watts in the Sunday Express: "The worst film I have ever seen." From the august Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why, John! | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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