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Word: stringings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel Seafarer was one of the string of U.S. ships-now almost one-a-day-which have been carrying war materials to the British in the Middle East via the Red Sea for four-plus months. U.S. citizens could safely assume that the President would not let Incident No. 3 pass, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Incidents | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...from the biological schedule, Dr. Gesell claims that a doctor can tell that something is wrong. The tests take only ten to 20 minutes, can be easily mastered by all doctors. They require such simple equipment as colored rings, a rattle, blocks, a pellet and bottle, a bell, a string, paper and crayon, etc. A few examples of normal behavior at key ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What's the Baby's D. Q.? | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...weeks: This is the age of the index finger-of poking and prying. The baby sits up by himself, plucks a string, creeps, pulls himself to his feet against the railing of his pen. He can say "mama, dada," and one other word. At mealtime he holds his bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What's the Baby's D. Q.? | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Said Joe, expelling his long-held breath: "I'm tickled to death it's all over. . . ." Next day, grinning, he started another string that had reached a count of three by week's end-despite the cunning of Pitchers Bob Feller and Harold Newhouser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Streak Ended | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...singer who made the record bears the press-agented title of "The Star-Spangled Soprano"-Lucy Monroe. Soprano Monroe, who used to sing accurately and unspectacularly in musicomedy, radio and the Metropolitan Opera (when it had a second-string spring season), got in the patriotic groove when she let loose the national anthem before the 1937 American Legion convention. Now she sings it at the doff of a hat. She believes that every office and factory worker should be made to start the day right by listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Total Patriotism | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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