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Word: wakely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elevator, whooped on roller skates down the historic hallways, walked on stilts up the circling stairways, with Father egging them on, often whooping it up ahead of them. Less like his father than the other children, but his father's favorite, Kermit followed in Father's boisterous wake, but liked to take books out of the Library of Congress and read while Archie and Ted played, argued with the whole White House staff. Father interrupted his studies at Harvard by taking him along as official photographer on the African game hunt in 1909. Out of college, he sailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Father's Son | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Wake up, America! Time to stump the experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney's wake and gives him all the acting support he could ask for. But it is an insult to all Harvard graduates, past, present, and future, that Jeffrey Lynn has been cast as a product of our fair institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...rage and a kind of anguish. The damned folly of life has caught us again and the sons of those who died are going to be the victims of another evil spell. Can it be possible or isn't it just a nightmare from which we shall all wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Winkles on Pins | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Hoxa. To pick his way through such barriers, Prien would have needed a map furnished either by spies or by aerial reconnaissance cameras. Another theory of how he got in is that he disguised his superstructure to resemble a British submarine and boldly followed in the wake of a returning British ship, copying her recognition flash signals as they passed guardian destroyers. Or Prien may have picked out a channel, perhaps through Switha Sound, so close to shore that it was deemed by the British unthinkably dangerous and not worth mining or netting. But his own account of the adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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