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Word: personation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time John Harvard went south, he came back on a stretcher. Next week in the person of four teams, he heads for Dixie again and if the Crimson squads win seven contests among them, John will have escaped with his scalp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teams Infiltrate South For Vacation Imbroglios | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...your issue of March 1 . . . you use the word swivet. The only person I ever heard use the word is my secretary, who is from Memphis, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...WILL BET YOU TWO TICKETS TO THE PLAY THAT THE THIRD PERSON [WAS] MY FRIEND BOB KEITH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

This week, President Harry Truman gravely confirmed the bleak facts of mounting tension between the U.S. and Soviet Russia. He summoned a special joint session of Congress to hear a report from him in person on the critical foreign situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Flashes of Light | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist Labor (he never swung a pick), Member of the Politburo. He is a steady, quiet type who .has a wife, two children and a suburban villa to which he commutes in a Packard -with the shades always drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Hunter | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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