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Word: manly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassadors Kennedy and Davies forget that one man in the United States will not need two years to become acquainted with the duties of the Presidency-Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...man in the rumpled suit scratched his pen steadily across the large white sheets. In the stillness of the Oval Room the two flags hung limp on the mahogany standards; blue smoke from his burning cigaret wavered up from the silver tray. On his desk were newspapers, staring headlines of bombings and battles; and a Bible, open at Isaiah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It Shall Come to Pass | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...man wrote on. Through the ceiling-high window, framing the long roll of grass, tired-green now with winter, came the faint honks of the cabs, rolling shoppers home with Christmas packages. Thousands of miles away, helmeted men squinted through bombsights; homeless families trudged despairingly through the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It Shall Come to Pass | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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