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Word: boiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Scratch One Hearse! | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...University of Minnesota, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher has developed a one-man "belly still" (worn strapped around the waist) which uses body heat to boil sea water at low temperature, under partial vacuum, to yield drinkable fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drop to Drink | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Selfridge had more gunplay. A sentry discovered two civilians scaling a fence into the field and fired on them when they ignored his command to halt. One escaped in the dark; the other, seriously wounded, was identified as a former Detroit salesman. The Selfridge pot had come to a boil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Scandal at Selfridge | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...were cooking something in boiling water and wanted to hurry, you should (a) increase the heat so the water would boil more rapidly, (b) put a cover on the pot (c) pour off some water, (d) use an airtight cooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Test | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...even hourly factory wages have risen faster than the cost of living. But such are the twin pressures on the Administration-which failed to face the inflation problem squarely in the early days of the war-that reasonable arguments have lost much of their force. The arguments now boil down to a simple demand: if "they" get something, "we" want something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Shadow of Inflation | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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