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Word: setters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Mendl, eightyish, ageless, international smart-setter, predicted great things for her wartime home, Hollywood. Said she: "Hollywood is the new kingdom of youth and ambition. . . . This is the new focal point of civilization. .. . Among the kings and queens of the future, the stars of Hollywood will be prominently enthroned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Decorators | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

That's what I want to get back to ... that world back home where a fellow can give the sort of welcome he ought to give to a litter of setter pups in the spring. To watch them grow up with all the other new, young things in a world that's bright and free. . . . Your loving son, Bill." In Normandy the ad caught the eye of an insulted soldier writer for a service paper called Le Tomahawk, who raised a tomahawk and went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Dear Mom | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Pointer. In Natick, Mass., Sumner D. Hersey's family ate no meat for three weeks, saved the points for a birthday roast-beef dinner. Just before the 7-lb. roast was carved, Sumner Hersey's setter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...Corporal Luther Leroy Roberts of Virginia, fuse-setter with an overseas anti-aircraft battery, after taking a premedical course at Washington, D.C.'s Howard (predominantly Negro) University. He was late with his trigonometry test papers; some "have been destroyed by tropical insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dear Old Usafi | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...team to a 47-39 victory over the Ithacans sent Jim Olsen of the Hanover champions into the lead in the individual scoring race with a total of 68 points. A single tally behind him is Bob Myers, also of the Green, who was last week's pace setter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Victory Over Tigers Gives Quakers Undisputed Basketball Lead | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

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