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Word: referse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wellesley's in town again. In what one refers to as the good old days, that was an event. There were pilgrimages to the wooded shores of Lake Waban, and the seekers of beauty danced in the streets, and on the paths of the Yard.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lake Waban Ice-Has Melted But Cambridge Is Still Slushy | 1/21/1944 | See Source »

Letter to a Hero (RKO-Pathe) is written by a small-town schoolteacher (played by Ann Dere) to an erstwhile pupil, a soldier who has just been decorated. While the soldier-whose face never appears-reads it, her voice speaks it. While she speaks, the camera wanders gently and perceptively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1944 | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

In the Air Forces, "Hangar Queen" is not a proud title. It refers to any grounded plane which is being systematically "cannibalized" (stripped of its parts) so that other planes may fly. Last week airmen told of the career of one of the biggest hangar queens yet-No. 144, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army And Navy - OPERATIONS: Hangar Queen | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

High point of the show is the ten or 15 minutes that Breneman spends trying on the audience's hats, which he refers to as "this molting feather duster" or "something special in the way of a potholder." Some women now deliberately show up with their most eccentric headgear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breakfast, of Sorts | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

There are some 100 stores in Bonham, including two banks, 12 cafes, six drugstores and seven dry-goods stores, but not one of them will acknowledge to being "the Bonham general store" where Sam sits with cronies for "big-town" photographers. The general store to which the author refers, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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