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Word: womans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade asked her, she could translate a whole book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Have a Unifa | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Instead of velvet or calico, the current Wellesleyite sometimes wears bluejeans, and often a man's shirt. In class, with a bandanna about her head, she sometimes looks a bit like a glamorized peasant woman trying to learn English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...regrettable incident." On May 15, 1947, when White Sands was young, a German V-2 swooped down at 3,500 m.p.h. and landed three miles from Alamogordo (pop. 5,000). Alamogordans had been hardened by years of practice-bombing and an atom-bomb explosion. One woman called up the Army to "get that thing out of my backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Man | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...spent a log of time in may bathtub after that and I knew that if he ever swam the English Channel, it would have to be with a woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Channel Duck Soup For University Hall's Turtle | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...heard Burl Ives sing a great many times both on records and in night clubs. In both cases it was impossible to realize the true clarity of his voice and the mellowness of his tone. Either there was surface noise on the records, or the sound of some drunken woman cackling...

Author: By Bronton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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