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Word: pearled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I see that they "fulfilled all the specifications" and that the Iowa dentists felt "that she was in a class by herself," but nowhere could I find just why her teeth were so remarkable. . . . What were her teeth, anyway, mother of pearl? WARD HICKS Albuquerque, N.Mex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...Diego in the Pacific Coast League for Jordan the next year and another fine season. The sports writers enthusiastically wrote that "the Padres have found another Ted Williams." But that was the year of Pearl Harbor, too. Jordan joined the Navy on December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirby Jordan Claims He's Best Dressed Harvard CPO | 8/11/1944 | See Source »

...this is by way of preamble to an accusation that the Pearl Harbor correspondents write tripe and lies and kill Pacific stories before the truth can get out. Correspondents in Pearl Harbor, writing from a ten-line communique and feeling a terrible compulsion to produce prose, pump their stories full of pure fancy and balderdash. Because they must write something and know no better, they begin each battle in triumph and write it off to a victorious finish by the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Accuse | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Thus within less than a week, and before the first on-the-scene copy reached the States, the PH experts had begun and ended the battle of Saipan. In Pearl Harbor they wrote with beautiful enthusiasm of American troops swamping the Japs, sweeping up Saipan's beach, blasting blithely through its defenses, sprinting to the island's biggest airport, largest town, highest mountain. They wrote with such smug confidence of victory that no reader and no editor could doubt that American troops here were engaged in a picnic of no consequence. So long as press communications remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Accuse | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...they divide all societies into male and female and act accordingly. In the 19th Century, when they were busy copying Western manners, they considered the U.S. and Britain male. Then, thanks to Anglo-Saxon nonresistance to Japanese aggression, the Japanese reversed their opinion of the Western powers' sex. Pearl Harbor and the later U.S. "weakness" in declaring Manila an open city reinforced the Japs' notion. What Japan needs to become a cooperative member of world society, according to Gorer, is less domestic discipline, more virile discipline from outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why Are Japs Japs? | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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