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Word: womans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Senate Banking and Currency committee last week, a trim, grey-haired woman slowly read this West Virginia coal miner's account of his fight with life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I'm Awful Thankful | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...rostrum. Explained French Architect Bernard Monnet: "It would have shocked the British." Instead of Venus, he chose a discreetly robed Minerva. That was perhaps symbolic. The Council would not succeed through love; if it accomplished anything, it would do so in the ways of Minerva, a hardheaded and practical woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: No One Is Astonished | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

While upholding the new puritanism, Szabad Nep also upheld the importance of being pretty. In reply to a woman reader who remarked that she had no time to think about her looks, the fashion editor wrote sternly: "In your opinion, Comrade, it is a waste of time if a woman desires to express by a spotlessly laundered blouse or neatly groomed hair that she lives and works in a healthy and free country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Private Lives | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...talk about that symbol of 'elegance' for the working-class woman, the white blouse. To hell with the white blouse . . . Those polka-dotted or checked blouses are now the vogue. You can get them for 47 to 59 forints ($4 to $5) in every department store . . . Don't tell me you can't afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Private Lives | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Spreading Chestnut Tree) Connor, who had written a set of words for an English version of the original Lilli song, had figured that most of her wartime admirers were back home with wives of their own; so, with Songsmith Johnny Reine providing matrimonial music, he had made an honest woman of her too. Sample from their The Wedding of Lilli Marlene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heard about Lilli? | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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