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Word: ballooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further evidence of a Roosevelt turn to the right. Drew Pearson has a long and sometimes servile record as a pro-New Deal columnist, was one of the few journalistic apologists for the 1938 "purge" and the Court-packing scheme, has sent up many a New Deal trial balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Chronic Liar | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Tricks That Worked. His first job was building a Cargill dream: a frame-less, sheet-steel grain elevator shaped like a balloon. To keep the unsupported steel from collapsing when empty, Jensen built it on frames, pumped in compressed air, pulled out the frames, let the air pressure do their work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: The Farmer Goes to Sea | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Maybe he sells cigarets-back in Omaha. But he goes over like a lead balloon with the boys who have SEEN Guada, Buna and the north Tunisian coast. And a lot of guys who have been wearing the same socks for a month could cheerfully throttle the copywriters who created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spanking-of-the-Week | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Fellow Traveler. In Los Angeles, Elmer R. Clark grabbed the cable of a run away barrage balloon drifting over his yard, rose briefly into the air, settled again, whipped the cable quickly around the bumper of his car, chased the balloon-towed car across the yard and out to the boulevard, down the street, into a vacant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...cause intense pain to a man's skin had no effect on Tom's gastric mucosa. But when a spot on his stomach lining was stripped of its protecting mucus and sprinkled with mustard, it became very sensitive. Strong pressure with a glass rod or from a balloon inflated in his stomach to 1,500 cc. gave Tom a stomachache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stomach | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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