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Word: phoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north Texas town four days earlier to rejoin her husband, a cadet at the San Antonio aviation cadet school. Tired and worn down after fruitless room-hunting, she had spent three nights in the ladies' lounge of the Gunter, four days in the lobby waiting for a phone call from her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Whither Thou Goest . . . | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...landed squarely in the middle of the culvert we had just left. The Dawn Attack. We sort of fitfully dozed for a while. At 5 o'clock the snapping of rifle bullets coming across our slope woke me and I heard Chuck talking to Morehouse on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Salvemini picked up the Saturday morning Traveler and then began a series of interrupted phone calls that muttered dangerous Italian into the carphones of poor Boston reporters, who get stories, for their living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Even If You're The Traveler I Won't Be Sent to London | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...Army last week eased its censorship of the silent interval between the last phone call home before troops leave for overseas and the mailing of the "safe arrival" card. On a censored date it took correspondents on a 14-hour inspection of the huge, wide-flung New York Port of Embarkation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - LOGISTICS: Farewell to America | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...instance, a client who has been climbing out of debt steadily may tele phone Purdy & Rouse, to ask whether he can buy a living-room suite, or a suit of clothes. The firm looks over his affairs and his needs, tells him yes or no. For the service, C.A.C. charges a small fee (averaging about $4 monthly), staves off garnishments and judgments, does the worrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CREDIT: How to Get Out of Debt | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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