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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Black Moons | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Foulest blow of this new Nazi in-fighting landed under the belly of the 8,3O9-ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, carrying 170 crew and 230 passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: In-Fighting | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

No yellow-belly, Potter accepted-on one condition: Barton must turn critic and review the performance.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Three-Minute Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

In nearly 400 pages about these embattled primitives, Author Cheney never once skids into histrionics, bitterness or those tones of romantic compassion which mar the larger talent of Steinbeck. He presents these types of inarticulate and stony heroism not as sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Corn Bread | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Last week Labor had the look of an errant youngster who suspects that pa was right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Back to Papa? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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