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Word: burstingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defeated General Augusto Nogues, commander-in-chief of all French Forces in North Africa, burst into American Headquarters after the November 1942 invasion and in those four grim words tearfully predicted Axis downfall will be disclosed publicly for the first time on February 18 by Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History in his forthcoming book "Operations in North African Waters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First of Morison History Volumes Out This Month | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

...Best." From the station, General Marshall went to his old office in the Pentagon Building. He looked at his mail, brushed his hair and washed up. A few minutes before eleven, he drove to the White House. As he strode in, the waiting crowd in the lobby burst into spontaneous applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: A Beginning | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Continents on the Loose | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Jeroboam chose no upstart city for his capital. When Father de Vaux dug deeper, he found proof that the site had been inhabited in 4000 B.C. Nearly 30 centuries had passed over it before the Israelites first burst into the land of Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Just before it became a ghost in 1894, the crowded, rough mining town of Aspen, Colo, had a last burst of excitement. From Smuggler Mine on a nearby slope, prospectors took out a nugget of almost pure silver weighing 2,060 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost on Skis | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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