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Word: sawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Reggie called for Mrs. Amelia Waldron in a curtained car and drove her to a hideaway on the city's outskirts. There was Frankie. He told his stepmother excitedly: "I'm going to Russia. You'll hear from me." That was the last Amelia ever saw of him. She did hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

People outside the office saw little of him. Every morning, a bespectacled chauffeur-bodyguard knocked on the sixth-floor door of his apartment at 420 West 119th Street (near Columbia University), escorted him down to a Chrysler sedan and drove him to the office. In the evening the chauffeur took him home again in the same solicitous fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...father, who is a milkman, mentioned it along his route. Last week-Holy Week-thousands of people who wanted to believe and thousands who were merely curious descended on Hawley Avenue and the two-story frame house with its artificial-brick sides. Some of the visitors knelt, prayed, and saw tears. Others, including newspaper reporters, said they saw moisture on the cheeks of the statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: St. Anne's Tears | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Messner was in Memorial Hall on the afternoon of March 25, waiting for a rehearsal of "Corialanus" to begin, when he noticed that an examination was being administered. He saw a friend, sat down next to him, and asked, "What's the name of this course...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Undergraduate Passes Examination | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

Tonight, at 7:15, I intend to stand at the Subway kiosk and repeat the following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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