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Word: bottome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereafter Ensign Burk concentrated on a particular target: Jap landing barges. Soon he found himself a champ for the second time in his life. His record: 13 Jap barges sent to the bottom, an assist on a 14th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Double Champ | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Instead of gobbling their meager food, the Leningrad children hoard it. They slowly drink the liquid part of their soup first, then slowly eat the bits in the bottom of the dish. Often they crumble their bread into matchboxes to be munched furtively later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Suffer Little Children | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...general question, "Should Youth Enter Politics?" I thought youth should enter politics because in youth's hands rests the future, and because interest in political questions was the best training for responsible citizenship without which democracy can never survive. I mentioned too that this fact was at the bottom of maintaining the peace, since world peace was as much a question of men as of systems. From those premises my argument proceeded. Lawrence Fernsworth, Nieman Fellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/28/1944 | See Source »

Such an irresistible affection for the human scene, communicating itself at once to the audience, has been at the bottom of much great clowning. On this basis, Jimmy Durante builds a ludicrous structure of many ramifications. His less discerning admirers have been apt to call him a big-nosed, uproarious zany and let it go at that. But the fact that Jimmy's nose is big is no more important per se than the fact that W. C. Fields's nose is red. Jimmy, like Fields, is no gagster, however appealing, depending on the card indexes of teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Also reversed in Al Mukhtar is makeup. Arabic is read from back to front, and from right to left (but from top to bottom of pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Al Mukhtar | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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