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Word: plural (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schedule in the West. At Casablanca plural invasions were planned but not precisely scheduled. The fall of Tunisia, a month earlier than had been hoped, made it possible: 1) to schedule further attacks exactly; 2) to coordinate them with the military situation in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Divided They Fall | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

What do these babies do in the plural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Let's Learn Spanish | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Japanese has no singular or plural, no gender. A noun never changes its form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Japanese in Ten Lessons | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City in 1890, snow-bearded Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a revelation from the Lord that the world was not yet ripe for the doctrine of plural marriage. Forthwith he banned it, ordered immediate excommunication of all Mormons who insisted on the full life, including polygamy. That obstacle at last removed, Utah was admitted to Statehood, although Reed Smoot, Mormon Senator, wasn't sure of his seat until after an exhaustive Senate investigation had disclosed that Mormons did not have two horns and a tail, as charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T^E CONGRESS: Saints in the Senate | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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