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Word: provisional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Essayist Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Bundle | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

If Father Conkling accepts, Chicago will have its youngest (45) bishop ever. Tall, vigorous, blue-eyed, prematurely white, a graduate of Williams and Oxford, he served in the Navy during World War I, has been at big (1,419 communicants), fashionable St. Luke's since 1924. There he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopal Election | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Informality will be the keynote at the Leverett House Square Dance on December 7 at 8:30 o'clock, and girls are requested to wear low-heeled shoes to fit in with the formal trend of the dance. Restricted to Leverett House members and their guests, the price of admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/4/1940 | See Source »

> Observers will operate largely on their bellies, peer around the right (not left) side of trees, rocks, fence posts. Reason: Right-handed observers must be ready to shoot from their right shoulder. The Army tries to turn lefties into righties. The Lynch manual makes no provision for lefties.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Handbook to War | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

"Members of the House of Commons. You will be asked to make further financial provision for the conduct of the war.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Not So Badly | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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