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Word: bottlesful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the bulls were good. Although Pepín Martín had never been gored, he seemed nervous. After a halfhearted effort with his first bull, he ran away from his second, playing it at arm's length, then tried to kill it too soon. The crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No. 2 1 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

A few minutes later, the same bull had caught a visiting runner from the town of Villaba and killed him. With two deaths to his credit, the big black bull, with the number 21 on his side, was known and hated by the entire crowd. They whistled and screamed "toro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No. 2 1 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

The day began with a salute to the flag and the Lord's Prayer. Then Miss McKinney started classes. While she taught one grade, boys & girls in other grades did "busy work" at their desks ("I have no trouble keeping them quiet. They want to learn"). At lunchtime, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Battle of Waterloo, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Through the Curtains. He wrote Governor Kim Sigler that liquor was being sold to schoolchildren while city officials, all "drinking men," looked the other way. Peering through the parsonage's curtains, he said, he had seen: "Schoolchildren taking nips between dances from bottles hidden in snowdrifts . . . boys & girls undressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: The Preacher & Rose City | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

The men in the pits were too busy to look up for more than an instant. Bill Holland, who had taken the lead (earning $100 in prize money for each lap he led) rolled in to the pit for his first stop. It took 14 seconds to change a weakening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: EZY Did It | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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