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Word: cupful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Approve what he does well. (Junior grasped cup; mother nodded, smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...particularly difficult or disliked undertaking, give more help than is needed. (Mother helped Junior lift cup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...alone if he needs no more help. (Junior pondered, put cup down again, appeared to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Give increasing help, more specific directions. (Mother firmly showed Junior how to pick up cup, put it to his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Sweden, Britain gets wood pulp for explosive cellulose and newsprint. Fortnight ago Germany warmed to its work by sinking one Swedish and two Finnish pulp boats. Last week two more Swedish freighters got it (one of them after the captain had been taken aboard the U-boat, given a cup of coffee and sandwiches), and it became Norway's turn, too, with three Britain-bound pulpsters sunk, two by torpedoes, one by a mine. Sweden protested bitterly, shut down her pulp business temporarily, threatened as sharply as she dared to cut off her shipments of iron ore to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: This Pest | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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