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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the curtain goes up on the Harvard Theater Workshop's production of Troilus and Cressida next week, the most beautiful woman in Massachusetts will play the role of the most beautiful woman in the ancient world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Miss Massachusetts' Will Play HTW's Helen of Troy | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...huge white letters along the sides of his tram, while Cremorne Hospital hoisted a diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain's princeling might live to celebrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Both Doing Well | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...woman the sergeant adored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Whom the Sergeant Adored | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Marlene ("Legs") Dietrich pooh-poohed a popular myth: "The average man," she confided, "is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs." But she conceded that beautiful legs "help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Year by year in the U.S., there are more & more old people. At 65, the average American white man still has twelve years and eight months to live; the average 65-year-old woman has 14½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Senile Statistics | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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