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Word: essayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Potomac put in at Port Everglades, Fla., where the President polished up a short speech, broadcast it that night to the postponed national Jackson Day dinners of the Democrats. The most unpolitical Jackson Day address in history, the speech was a homely little essay on national unity. Said the President: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am sitting in the little cabin of the little ship Potomac, in the harbor of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a day of sunshine out in the Gulf Stream. ... In Washington, as you know, the working day of the Presidency in these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: spring and Something Else | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...until 1936. (The Army last week had about as many Springfields as Garands in service but was substituting Garands as fast as production [about 700 a day] permitted.) Since the Army adopted the Garand, the Marine Corps has been under pressure to do the same. (See TIME's photo-essay on the timeless, ubiquitous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army: Report on the Garand | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...with Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill ("Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes") in deliberate, sharpshooting marksmanship. The Garand, 3 to 3½ times faster, is therefore the logical choice of those who put high fire power above all else. (See TIME's photo-essay on the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army: Report on the Garand | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...TIME's photo-essay on the timeless, ubiquitous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army: Report on the Garand | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...uses both wings of a feud to win an election; a sad comedy about a one-eyed man whose girl two-timed him. Some of the best are merely rich descriptions of farm work masterful records of the quiet talk that runs over it. More ambitious is a poetic essay on graves, generations and the mountain heritage. Toward the end of the volume Hillbilly Stuart breaks into plain English and writes a story of two snakes which is the shortest, best piece in the collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-conscious Hillbilly | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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