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Word: wreathing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonders in Moscow whether Broadway has a firm grip on its laurel wreath. New York's theater still has, in my opinion, a slight edge on Moscow's-in scope, in splendor of production, in entertainment value, perhaps even in acting and in art. But at its present rate Moscow will soon be far ahead on all counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Russia Likes Plays Too | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Monty got new honors the same day: the rank of Field Marshal, conferred by King George VI. The award set up a new cacophony of confusion: did Monty's crown and laurel wreath outrank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Appomattox, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff, is six-star "Admiral of the Navy" (equals nothing short of Heaven). Reportedly Ernie King is already designing a new sleeve insigne and pondering a way to avoid the Milky Way effect on his starstudded shoulder boards by substituting a wreath, or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Hierarchy | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...local movie palace. One afternoon they went into "Bugle Call Rag" as Tom Mix ran down the rustlers, and Dave North was sailing into his fourteenth piano chorus when trombonist Floyd O'Brien glanced up at the screen. The newsreel had come on and Marshal Foch was laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier...

Author: By S. SGT George avaklan, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/30/1943 | See Source »

...Willing. "To a people that passes successfully through these trials ordained by Providence, the Almighty will give in the end the laurel wreath of victory and, thus, the prize of life. Come what may, this people must and will be Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Facing the Facts | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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