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Word: rowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat was really on last week in more ways than one. After some bonder from Co. 4 left one of his old coke bottles in Chaso E entry and thus restricted all of us for the second week in a row, it looked dark for the week-end boys." And then, the close escape this week, when it seemed as though tomorrow would also be half wasted. Only for Keith Broman (who, incidentally, is seeking public office, post bellum), we'd be looking forward to missing our 1 o'clock trains and dates. All is now settled...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/11/1944 | See Source »

...seemed to change; she always sat still and demure in her billowy Victorian black dress; when spring came, she simply added a white embroidered collar. Her habits and mind were simple and domestic. Outside "Miss Hattie's" door in the mahogany-&-marble Senate Office Building stood a little row of milk bottles. While her male colleagues bellowed and fumed and passed fateful legislation, she sat and worked crossword puzzles; often just sat listening, for hours. When she voted, her voice was hardly audible. In her 13 years she made fewer than 15 speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Last of the First | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...formation," says the former blocking back in giving him the edge over the Chicago star. Tuckey also has words of praise for Wayne Milner and Turk Edwards, other of his famous teammates on the great Redskin teams, which met the Bears for the championship twice in a row, winning in '38 but taking a 75-0 licking the following season. "That sometimes happens in football," says the Chief; "everything we did backfired and everything they did worked. Besides, when the score got up to 30 to 0 the Bears began to take chances and all these plays went for touchdowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tuckey, Former Redskin Player, To Be Assistant Football Coach | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...London the war's greatest concentration of flak guns destroyed some bombs, added to the nerve-racking din compounded by sirens, bells and other warning devices. The bombs continued to deliver death in wholesale lots: twelve in one row of shops, five in a row of dwellings. One bomb barely missed a U.S. Army headquarters, slightly wounded four WACs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: The Worst, and Worse to Come | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Born. To Nancy Coleman, 26, cimemactress (Kings Row), and Hollywood publicity man Whitney Bolton, 44, onetime Manhattan dramacritic: identical twin daughters. Names: Charla Elizabeth, Grania Theresa. Weights: 4 lbs. 11 oz. each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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