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Word: bumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, all the hundreds of Wallace placards had vanished. The three huge white Wallace balloons, which had hung over the convention all day, were let go; they floated swiftly to the dim rafters overhead, there to bump softly above the smoke, the lights, and the cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: How the Bosses Did It | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...From ghoulies and ghosties, long-leggity beasties, and things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Things That Go Bump | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...your heart goes bumpity-bump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Main Line | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Casualties | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...nation's bumper crop of babies, the wise men of WPB had good tidings. Since last April, when a limitation was placed on the use of steel in infant vehicles, most babies have had to bump along in rickety wooden carriages, strollers, walkers and pushcarts. Last week, lifting this particular restriction, WPB hoped to allot enough metal to permit the manufacture of some 700,000 prewar model carriages this year. (Anticipated births...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN SUPPLY,AVIATION,RENEGOTIATION: For Babies Only | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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