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Word: wands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subversive rumor was in the wind. It was noised about that one of the Houses was fielding a pair of identical twins, one of whom wields a potent wand at the plate. Opponents began considering the possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Ball Practice Hits Full Stride as Teams See Double | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

...medical schools' plea was backed up last week by the keeper of one of the chief U.S. medical moneybags-Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. In his annual report, Fosdick observed that medicine's philanthropists have been giving too much of their money for "magic-wand" research, too little for training physicians. Said he: "We cannot grow orchids in a greenhouse that lacks coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Orchids Without Coal | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Fairy (with wand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Christmas Pantomime | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Transformation Scene in which, at a wave of the Fairy's wand (and a brief, rumbling blackout), rags become riches and poor hovels, palaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Christmas Pantomime | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...talking dog-that peopled Barnaby, a fey and fanciful strip that began in Manhattan's tabloid PM in April 1943. Johnson liked them all, from Gorgon the dog to Mr. O'Malley, Barnaby's pink-winged fairy godfather whose long cigar was a magic wand. But keeping them on schedule was a grind. Hulking Crockett Johnson tired, began plotting his escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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