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Word: pencils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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PLEASE ADVISE BY SLOW FREIGHT DOES HARTFORD, CONN. HAVE A BUG WORKS WHERE NUTS HAVE WRITING PRIVILEGES. IF SO, A. H. PATTERSON SHOULD HAVE HIS PENCIL TAKEN AWAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Interior Secretary Harold Ickes sharpened his pencil, put down his findings in the American Magazine. His total: $12 trillion, $23 billion. Divided among 135,000,000 people, the sum would give each American man, woman & child a nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rich America | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...sorry about no letter last week but the editorial blue pencil got to scratching and from the way the letter looked after they were done . . . there wasn't enough message left to put on the postage stamp...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

...work on mathematico-physical problems, Albert Einstein, no landlubber, sharpened his pencil for the Ordnance Bureau of the U.S. Navy. Without specific rank, he will be stationed at his home base, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hyde Park Double Take | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...Solomons dressing station a Marine sergeant with a wound in his throat got his sixth transfusion, made signs for paper and pencil, wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: Why Worry? | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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