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Word: samsonized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both camps are dead-sure of victory. Miss O. U. Kidd, Radcliffe '43 (slightly retarded) has come forth with this statement, "What Delilah did to Samson and what Frankie did to Johnnie ain't half of what we're goin' to do to the Crimson crew tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'CLIFFE CREW TO FIGHT FOR FEMALE'S FREEDOM | 5/18/1945 | See Source »

...military use of fire, which goes back at least to Samson's day (he tied firebrands to the tails of 300 foxes and loosed them in the fields of the Philistines) has been developed in World War II to a fearsome degree. At the beginning of the war, both sides relied mainly on thermite and magnesium-filled bombs. Such bombs, as every air-raid warden knows, burn with terrible fury but are comparatively easy to put out if attacked in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Incendiary Jelly | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Francisco a divorce suit slowed almost to a halt while Lieut, and Mrs. Rudolph Samson wrangled over custody of an English bulldog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Heirs and Assigns | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Born. To Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 31, svelte contralto of the Metropolitan Opera and first American in 22 years to sing the exacting role of Philistine Temptress Delilah (in Samson and Delilah); and Walter Szurovy, 33, Hungarian stage and screen actor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Nicolas Vincent. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Playwright Samson Raphaelson, whose Jazz Singer is a corny version of the life many an Alliance alumnus knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years Off the Bowery | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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