Search Details

Word: seven-year-old (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...When seven-year-old Connie was asked what she was going to be when she grew up, she answered: "Explorer." Later, at the University of Arizona in 1941, she met, and later married, adventurous, 23-year-old Bud Helmericks, an Arizona hunter who could handle a boat as smartly as he could bring down a wild duck. He wanted his new wife to become "a killer of bears." One hour after their wedding, Bud and Connie boarded a ship for Alaska, bent on a canoe trip down the Yukon, third longest river in North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yukon Honeymoon | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Princess Alexandra, seven-year-old daughter of the widowed Duchess of Kent, was royally shy and reserved with a group of U.S. Army men visiting her and her grandmother, Queen Mary-until Captain Stuart A. Safdi won her over with a package...

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

There were the three doctors in the California mountains last winter who saved a seven-year-old girl when gas gangrene had forced repeated amputations of her left arm up to the shoulder: "As a last resort, penicillin was given after all hope had been abandoned for a recovery, which came like a miracle." There was a doctor in Sioux Falls, S.D., who was astonished to save a man moribund with osteomyelitis and septicemia after sulfadiazine had failed: "This being the first case in which I have employed penicillin therapy, I feel that the results obtained, to say the least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 20TH Century Seer | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: What's the Matter? | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Panties. Last time Pola looked anemic was in 1941, when she left behind her 18 lb., all her money, in then-Unoccupied France, promptly fled to the U.S. She was met by a seven-year-old bill from Manhattan's de luxe Hotel Ambassador. The bill ($2,500) represented the unpaid balance of $8,500 which Pola had run up for cash advances (upwards of $4,500), flowers, beauty-parlor charges, drugs, telegrams, phone calls, etc. But hotel bills were not all. She was also being dunned for $1,705.30 by Couturiere Hattie Carnegie, Inc. for purchases which included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | Next