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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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13,530 Sparrows? Not chronicled by Eve Garrette Grady, for it came only last week, was Russia's laugh of the year?a Gargantuan belly-quake which rocked the Union and was not suppressed by Soviet censors.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Laugh--And Keep Ready! | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

By Rocket to the Moon (UFA). Originally called The Girl in the Moon, this was made in Germany under the direction of Hermann Oberth, German rocket experimenter. In the belly of the gigantic rocket, tearing at 24,000 m.p.h. toward the dark face of the moon which no human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

In Watson's Bay, Australia, one Charles Messenger caught a shark, slit its belly, found a lady's hand bag containing a wrist watch. Inscription on the wrist watch: "Yours till death. Bill."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

A Harvard professor opened up a cat and beheld certain belly muscles tickling its heart. That was of such profound physiological import that the professor, Walter Bradford Cannon, a great physiologist, last week took train to Yale, which once gave him an honorary Doctor of Science degree, to tell the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sympathin: Visceral Hormone | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Bashan, "a short-haired setter" with a broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forsyte Footnotes* | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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