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Word: blistering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most volcanoes, loud and pushing, build their cinder cones openly of fiery ash and lava. But a few volcanoes work under cover. Their molten lava never reaches the surface, but quietly pushes up the earth's rock layers as water from a burst pipe raises a blister in an asphalt pavement. Last week scientists were studying a report by Professor Hidezo Tanakadate, geographer at Tokyo's Hosei University, on the only undercover volcano whose birth and growth have been observed by scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shy Volcano | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...child find out, by the oldfashioned, hard way, that fire hurts; a little blister is better than interference with a crawling child's new-found freedom, or than making fire into something forbidden and therefore tempting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Too Modern Parent | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...afternoon will feature, besides the out-of-season race complete with a Marryin' Sam at the finish line, what is described as a "Schmoo Hunt--finders keepers," hiking--"a free schmoo for every blister," a tug of war with Wellesleyites, a softball game with Simmons girls, sack races, and a 75 cent picnic supper, followed by a "songfest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Club Goes Out On Picnic Tomorrow | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horrible Oaths | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Century. The roads played up different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreamliners | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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