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Word: wrought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true your child resembles an elephant, Mrs. Tytla?" (with the same expressions, incidentally, as the gossiping elephants in Dumbo), I am compelled, like poor Mrs. Jumbo, to waddle off, as I mutter to myself, "A wit, no doubt." However, being fully aware of the havoc that can be wrought ... on an impressionable small child, I am appealing to you, as a mother, to right this terrible wrong. (Besides, we have no space left in which to store the tons of peanuts that continue to arrive daily.) Therefore I have taken the liberty of sending you a photograph of Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...following days, the Jap struck in many places from the air. He bombed Nichols Field, just south of Manila, time & again; in one raid alone he lost eleven planes. He struck at Cavite, the Navy's base on Manila's south harbor; there he wrought heavy damage, barely missed the base's commander, weather-beaten Rear Admiral Francis Rockwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Philippines Stand | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...would have been pleasant to turn round and run back to the car . . . but the place had enormous authority. It was the body of our death, it was the seed of the sin that is in us, it was the forge where the sword was wrought that shall slay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heaven and Earth in the Balkans | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England. Across the room in a serious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since 1583. The fireback is decorated with "Susannah and the Elders" in wrought iron, while tapestries and a Gothic cabinet effectively hide the crumbling north wall...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/17/1941 | See Source »

...chandelier is 16th century Spanish wrought iron, like the crane supporting the lantern over the front door. Seven thousand Delft tiles bearing pictures of windmills and Dutch barmaids completely cover the walls of the Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however. The walls are littered with drawings by F. G. Attwood, James Montgomery Flagg, Gluyas Williams, Larz Anderson, and other ex-editors. Their carved signatures may be read in the oaken dining table...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/17/1941 | See Source »

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