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Word: surginger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The waters of Puget Sound separate the mountainous, timbered Olympic Peninsula from the Washington mainland. There is only one point in the 20,000 square miles covered by the Sound where the Peninsula shore and the shore of the mainland are close-the famed, fabled Narrows at Tacoma, 85 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Narrows Nightmare | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Wilson's boatload nipped the surging Anderson shell by another fractional margin, and Bristol Hall's heavy, crossing fifth, edged out the first fifty to finish, stroked by Johnny Abbot, who had waged a nip and tuck battle down the course with Bobby Lincoln until a crab put his fifty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLT WAGNER'S EIGHT NIPS CURWEN'S IN PHOTO FINISH | 11/8/1940 | See Source »

Appearance. At 5 a.m. there were 5,000 people in Callaway Park. At 9 a.m. 20,000 of the 30,000 seats were taken. An hour later, when the heat of the day began, the crowd had grown to 60,000, though the speech was still seven hours away. Downtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Crowd at Elwood | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Before Hitler's aerial Blitzkrieg became a reality, the English theatre was in the dumps. Last week, as Nazi bombers swarmed over London, theatrical tills rang loudly again. Going strong were revivals like the Devil's Disciple with Robert Donat, Dear Octopus with aging Marie Tempest. Viewed tepidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Better Business | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Lean, twangy, Oklahoma-born Roy Harris, a sobersided, high-brow composer, has never been ranked as a popular song-maker. Last month, on the day that Italy struck at France and England, Composer Harris sat thoughtfully down to some verses he had written. Four days later he finished a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Hear America Singing | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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