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Word: reference (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refer to such outstanding examples as the one demonstrating the washing of busses, another dealing with electrons [TIME, April 20], but especially to the really wonderful picture entitled STATUE IN RUBBER OF SOMEBODY'S KIDNEY, which appeared as an advertisement for Goodrich Rubber Co. in your issue of Feb. 23. We have used this in our classes in biology at Hunter College and have found it very helpful in demonstrating the structure of the kidney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Marines have been keeping plenty of sand spits free of vermin since this war started. Your comments relative to the Pacific often refer to "Midway still holding out," etc. What the hell do you think is going on, a private war on Midway? Look at some of the other spots on your map for an idea occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...year-old New England Poet Robert Frost this April brought out his seventh book of poems, his first new book in six years. During those years he lost his son (his youngest daughter died in 1935, his wife in 1938); yet the only lines in his book that refer to personal loss read as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...just what does it mean? Do the carrots refer to Gandhi and his vegetarian habits, or to Cripps himself, as the article would imply? Do the umbrellas symbolize No. 10 Downing Street, to which you imply Cripps may move, or do they stand for the shelter, peace-in-our-time type of government prevalent until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...refer to the Harvard student, touched by the first soft breath of spring, throwing open his window with the cry, "Oh, Rinehart!" (TIME, March 30), you would have your readers believe that was some obscure Harvardism for "Pshaw!" or "Alack-aday!" Actually, it is nothing of the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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