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Word: taskmistress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strict taskmistress, Edith Efron passed only five of her 20 students, flunked all but one of the professional newsmen. Last week the Haitian National Assembly was considering a permanent department of journalism at the University of Haiti. Probable chairman: Edith Efron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uproar in Haiti | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...morning in 1895 Secretary Ponsonby also collapsed (of overwork), died ten months later. "Dear kind Sir Henry," his Royal Taskmistress wrote, "so universally beloved ... so kind and so fair and just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Letter-Opener | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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