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Word: bottlesful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Effingham's Raid (20th Century-Fox), from the novel by Berry Fleming, tells the story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

The floor show had to be called off when hilarious veterans scrambled to get into the act and airmen distracted the audience with a rousing crap game. Bottles of beer consumed were measured in thousands; no one dared to estimate (or particularly cared) how much strong stuff was downed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE SERVICES: Reunion in Toronto | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

At Round Temple, dividing point between Hindu and Moslem sections of the city, tough, stocky Commissioner Harold Edwin Butler's Buttercups (blue-and-yelow uniformed police) tried to bar the way. When paraders squatted on the pavements, the law hurled tear gas. Up came the Hindus with flailing bamboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Ghost v. Buttercups | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

A 4-by-2½-inch water glass, a 40-watt light bulb, a snuff box, a fish hook, ink bottles, a lemon, an apple, ox horns, chicken bones, a frozen pig's tail, a cold cream jar, whiskey glasses, an iron rod.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Punishment | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

* One apparent Jap attempt still puzzles CWS. Two bottles of water drifted in from the Pacific by balloon. One was no more polluted than tap water in some careless cities' municipal water systems; the other, for reasons known only to Tokyo, contained sterile water.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Into the Night | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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