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Word: tiredly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the visitors had gone he sat there with his eyes closed, his breathing growing more labored. With him was the Queen from whom he had been estranged since 1934 ("The King tires of everything; some day he will tire of me," she had said). Near her sat the two of his four sons whom hemophilia had not killed: tall, goodlooking Don Juan (for whom he had renounced his claim to the throne) and deaf Don Jaime. Wild-eyed Infanta Beatriz was there, and Alfonso may have remembered that she had driven the car in which Son Gonzalo was riding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: End of a King | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Died. Elizabeth Idabelle Firestone Graham, 27, wife of Defense Commission Aide Ray Austin Graham Jr., only daughter of the late Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone; of a streptococcus infection; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...your confidence in us. Give us your faith and your blessing, and under Providence all will be well. We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Answer | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...this week), North Dakota's recently divorced isolationist junior Senator; and Marguerite Johnson, 32, Rock Island. Ill. high-school teacher; at Iowa Falls. Iowa. They first met in Estes Park, Colo., when the Senator climbed out of his car to help Miss Johnson repair a tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Others: Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co., Crooner Morton Downey, Nassau Real Estate Man Harold Christie, Manhattan Architect John Sloan, Treasurer of the Banco Fiduciario de Mexico John R. O'Connor, Engineer Gustavo L. Trevino of Mexico City, President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Strange Bedfellows | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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