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Word: boil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riots would be a welcome relief if that is the price we must pay for freedom," and since then he has become even more uncompromising. If the Mahatma himself should decide to make a speech, and if he should be arrested, India's subsurface unrest would almost certainly boil over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jewel in Jeopardy | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...good neighborhood for him. On East 4th Street, near the river, he was on the coast where the tides of Manhattan's racial mixtures endlessly swirl and boil. Around him were Italians, Poles, Russians, Rumanians, Germans, living in an area of employment agencies, meat markets, secondhand clothing and furniture stores. Around him too were hordes of immigrants who knew no English. Alexander Alexandroff spoke English. French, German, Polish. Italian. Hebrew, Russian, and understood several other languages besides. Soon his neighbors began to use his office as a place to receive mail. Soon they began to rely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Uncle Alex | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...State Sanitation Department ordered 150 Ib. of chlorine (ten times the normal amount) to be dumped into the water pipes, the Department of Health set up vaccine clinics to help immunize 300,000 Rochesterians against typhoid. The Telephone Company called up its 95,000 subscribers, warned them to boil their water. The Rochester & Lake Ontario Water Service Corp. offered pure water to all who would fetch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mixed Drinks in Rochester | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...forced to change our plans. Cornellians everywhere, upon learning Haavahd's motive in stirring up this latest ruckus, will undoubtedly be abashed by their hasty reaction to the Crimson charges. There is really nothing to this affair when one knows what lies behind those bitter words and they boil down to this--Haavahd will soon become a coeducational institution. Yes, when the doors of the University swing wide next September, women will be admitted to the famed Halls and Yawd of Haavahd for the first time since the date of its founding. Until that time, however, its Athletic Policy will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/23/1940 | See Source »

...line, slated to start against Tom Harmon and associates only Chub Peabody who has a boil was absent from yesterday's rehearsal. Jim Aldrich, as a result went up to the first string...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: LINE POSTS SET FOR WOLVERINES | 10/10/1940 | See Source »

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