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Word: occasional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the wolves, there are plenty of women, for the most part good-looking and wearing no more clothing than the occasion demands. "During the first performances," states the program, "the costumes often used to come off and are held on by an intricate system of zippers and strong threads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Katherine Dunham's Tropical Review" | 12/8/1944 | See Source »

The University made national headlines on September 7 when it awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws to Winston Churchill on the occasion of the Washington conference. The British Prime Minister became the eighth foreigner to receive the degree.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Through Three Years of War--- | 12/8/1944 | See Source »

Last week, as Worcester, Mass, celebrated "All-British Week," its citizens got a sample of this venerable sheet. The Worcester, Mass. Telegram reprinted a specially-edited front page of the English paper, flown to the U.S. by bomber. For the occasion, as a supreme hands-across-the-sea gesture, Berrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oldest in English | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Last September the austere London Times, most reverend of Britain's newspapers, apologized to its readers for a mistake perpetrated in its youth. Published every weekday throughout the year except on Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day,* the Times blamed a careless 18th-Century staff for an error which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 50,000 Times | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

The occasion gave oldtimers a chance to consider what a remarkable fellow Reggie was in many ways.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Revival of Reggie | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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