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Word: boiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane can fly, the air is no use to the pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space. At a slightly higher altitude (63,000 ft.), his warm blood would boil, making his flesh swell up with bubbles like cookies baking in an oven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey into Space | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Robert S. Boil '53, member of the committee, said the report may advocate dropping the requirement altogether...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Linguistics Head Blasts Language Departments | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

...Cooking is our Bible," commented one girl, pointing to a detailed receipt on "How To Boil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peach House Coop Takes Freshmen, Snares Unwary Males in Kitchen | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...closing days of the campaign, the long-simmering "softness to Communists" issue finally came to full boil. Two weeks before, the Republicans had opened an all-out attack with a nationwide TV broadcast in which Richard Nixon detailed Adlai Stevenson's part as a character witness in the first Alger Hiss trial, and concluded: "His actions, his statements, his record disqualify him from leading . . . the fight against Communism at home and abroad . . ." Last week the Democrats launched a defense and counterattack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Alger Hiss Issue | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...that he is a man little compelled either by circumstance or temperament to dwell on the tragic issues of life. It is perhaps therefore only natural that his ebullient energies should seek clamant relief in attacking what he calls "this age of high comedy," in spectacularly pricking that "whole boil and bubble of insanity" which he says he sees around him and which so exasperates him that he is often driven "to hold his sides with laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Personality | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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