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Word: chapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maurizio about five miles away, where there was a large collection of olive-oil tanks. We went slowly into port, making no noise, with the gun manned, keeping a very good lookout in the darkness. I could see the Italians driving about in cars, and every now & then a chap would go by with his girl friend, smoking a cigaret. I could hear the dogs barking. It was all frightfully peaceful. I felt we were swine to interrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Good Time in the Depths | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Called one fighter pilot to another: "I say, old chap, there is a Jerry on your tail." Replied the other: "Quite so, quite so, thanks very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Cheer Up, Chicken | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...identified them all now," she said with the proper degree of sadness. "It wasn't a pleasant job, though. We had to dig one chap's dog tag out of his throat, and another had his wallet driven into his abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Three Miles East | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...youth Keats was a well-known amateur veterinary. An old lady brought him a sick cat, whose bladder Keats re moved. " 'A case of letting the bag out of the cat,' he remarked afterwards to Chap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eire's Columnist | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

When I hear about LOUIS AUDET, C. R. RITT, H. S. SMITH and that Chap, ROBINSON all getting married this month I wish that you would hurry up and get here because I am getting the bug, too....You asked me about some snapshots of Harvard? Well, BILL PAGE and ALBERT J. Marsh took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 6/4/1943 | See Source »

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