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Word: pining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Favorable reports are still coming through from the midshipmen who took the excursion to Pine Manor last weekend. Pine Manor hospitality and pulchritude both, according to those present, are unsurpassed in this area...

Author: By Ensign Long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 2/25/1944 | See Source »

...catcher's mitt was a gunner's asbestos glove (for handling, hot shells) with extra padding. It took four hours to make a baseball-from part of a rubber heel wound with string, covered with leather cut from gloves. Bats were whittled out of soft Russian pine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: White Sea League | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Pretty pickled pine kimona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Died. Floris ter Meulen, 63, socialite Dutch international banker; an unofficial envoy for The Netherlands; of a fall or jump from his office window; nearly four years after his daughter's similar death; in Manhattan's Pine Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dogs Take Over | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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