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Word: lefting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...your issue of Dec. 2, you state that the town of Peaceburg, Ala., founded by Samuel T. Peace, had been purchased for use [as an] army artillery range and that "last week no one by the name of Peace was left in Peaceburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Warm Springs on a gloomy, wet Sunday the President ate turkey, shook hands with discombobolated Helen Cothran, 4 (who shifted her sticky candy to her left hand just in time), with Wade Cothran, 3 (who had cake in both hands, put most of it in his mouth and said "Glmph!" to the President), and with 90 other polio patients. In a gay little speech he said deliberately: "I hope to be down here in March, without any question, if the world survives." (In April 1939, he had said deliberately: "I'll be back in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: What of the Night? | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Duke, who had scarcely left her side, seized the opportunity to visit their three pet Cairns, Pookie, Detto and Preezie, quartered temporarily in an animal clinic. Pookie has been with the Duke since his abdication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Duchess' Tooth | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...days later, the Duke left the Duchess' side again, this time to hop into a U. S. Navy plane and pay a call on President Roosevelt, whom he had not seen since 1919. Returning from his visit aboard the Tuscaloosa, the Duke told reporters that he and the President had discussed naval bases and CCC camps, which he thought he might try in the Bahamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Duchess' Tooth | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

After posing for newspaper photographers, Ann left a souvenier in the Studio comment book: "This has been a thrilling and happy experience for me--I've been to Harvard." P.S.--How about an MOGS Degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURLESQUE QUEEN BARES ALL DURING NETWORK PROGRAM | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

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