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Word: straws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even pitched a little at the Dewey farm. Dewey replied, with characteristic heavy jocularity, that if so, it was the first work Lowell Thomas had done in 21 years. Commented Scripps-Howard's veteran Tom Stokes: "It was a little hard to imagine either one with a straw lying honestly behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weil-Tailored Farmer | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Dark Eyes," this week's offering at the Cambridge Summer Theatre is by several such actresses and concerns their escapades in trying to get their play produced. Originally produced on Broadway with the autsshors, Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich, in the cast, the transition from the big time to straw hat seems to have taken its toll and proved one thing: that only Mirainova and Leontovich can star in this show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 7/11/1944 | See Source »

...friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen in many a straw-hat season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 6/20/1944 | See Source »

...further plans Jim Farley refused to discuss. Then he packed his briefcase and, in a new straw hat, posed for pictures leaving the office for the last time (see cut). Next day he was off on a three-week business trip to Mexico as board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Big Jim Goes | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along on a straw substitute. About 60% of the patients go back into action in two weeks. The rest go to a more luxurious convalescent hospital. One such hospital is an old Italian cavalry post with fine stables, 10,000 acres of pasture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War-Horse Hospital | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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