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Word: wearers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mantle of P. T. Barnum now flow over the tough shoulders of Showman Mike Todd who ran four of the biggest, most popular attractions at the recent New York World's Fair (Gay New Orleans, Streets of Paris, Dancing Campus, Old Time Op'ry House). Previous wearer of the whole mantle was Showman Billy Rose, but if Showman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mantle of Barnum | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...Catholic leader in Britain. His Eminence announced that he would give every British Catholic soldier, sailor and aviator (2,250,000 in all) a personally blessed crucifix of bakelite (to save metal) with the crucified figure "sunk into the cross so that it can't catch in the wearer's uniform." Then Cardinal Kinsley went on the air to preach a holy war against the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church & Democracy | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Warwise Canadians, seeking the hard facts of death and disaster, knew one place to find them. In spite of censorship, in spite of anonymous telephone calls accusing him of treason, in the Toronto Star Go-year-old William Rothwell Plewman-platinum-haired and wearer of a tall Herbert Hoover collar-wrote his daily column, The War Reviewed, analyzing World War II as he once analyzed World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War News for Canada | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...wrist watch with an alarm device which taps the wearer's wrist at the hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...abdominal exerciser equipped with a gong which rings when the wearer is breathing properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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