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Word: occasional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The occasion marked the latest tests of the Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Swimming Tractor | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

The occasion was the presentation by the unions which make up T. U. C. of 27 Y. M. C. A. mobile canteens. When the King, accompanied by his Queen, arrived in Buckingham Quadrangle to receive the canteens he was five minutes late for the ceremony. Barrel-chested, brindle-haired George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The King Joins the Union | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

On another occasion a youth appeared who said: "I am going to kill a man." While the young man babbled about doing something to the husband of his cutie, Mr. Anthony passed a note to his announcer suggesting that the client's coat be searched. In it was found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Problems, Inc. | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

About a dozen hardy looking schuss-men showed up for the first practice of the season with their long slender cross-country boards carefully waxed with Skare for the occasion, but the captain, Del Ames '42 was detained in the north woods by good snow conditions, and last year's...

Author: By John C. Cobb nd, | Title: SNOWSTORM OPENS SKIING AS TEAM PRACTICES X-COUNTRY | 11/30/1940 | See Source »

If Charles Dickens were alive today and chanced to drop in at the Plymouth Theatre for an evening's entertainment, he might have occasion to substantiate rather ruefully the age-old advice against indiscreet love-letters. One can easily picture the squirming anguish of a sensitive artist treated to a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

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