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Word: brush (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toothpaste? By diluting it in water and gulping it down? By decapping the tube and swallowing it whole and having somebody jump on your tummy? Or do you just brush your teeth continually without spitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1945 | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...carefully considered bids got him nearly everything he needed: fast linemen to brush-block and scat downfield, blazing fast halfbacks, a blocking fullback and, above all, a sleight-of-hand quarterback. Greasy got a few name players and a lot of unknowns who had what he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Philadelphia Story | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...consciousness of political power charged the proceedings with electric confidence. Under the watchful presidency of ex-miner Ebby Edwards, delegates barged through their business like a bulldozer through the brush. For the pressing problems currently besetting the Government there was tolerance and understanding. Even on the T.U.C.'s tenderest sore point-the Government's dilatory demobilization plan-delegates pulled their punches. This was their Government: it must get every chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Breeze in Blackpool | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

When I was young I used to wait On master and give him his plate, And pass the bottle when he got dry, And brush away the blue-tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Tail Fly | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...TIME'S tall (6 ft.), middle-aged (46), ambidextrous male artist used a tired old ½-inch, previously dipped brush to make the unstenciled sun before X-ing it out in the manner correctly described by Reader Harrington. The idea came suddenly, but was deliberately planned before execution. It was drawn to size. Contestant Harrington is the winner. Artzybasheff was the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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