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Word: damping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old weekly on London's Bouverie Street it was the 5,378th issue; for the new editor, it was the first. To appraise his work, his staffers grabbed the first damp copies that came up from the pressroom. Page One was reassuring (it had a lovers' lane murder yarn) and inside there were headlines like JURY TOLD OF HER LIFE WITH MAN CALLED A 'BEAST,' and CHASTITY PACT BROKEN, SAYS JUDGE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pages of Sin | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...same is being ladled out from University police headquarters in Grays Hall. "The nature of security," he asserted, "is such that you don't advertise it." Durant intimated, however, that the Yard force is as prepared for Yale exuberance as Uncle Dan Beard would have been for a damp book of matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Durant Men Set To Defend Yard From Eli Tricks | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

...attract U.N. attention to Franco repression. But the Caudillo acted first, suddenly uncovered for U.N. gaze a Communist cell conspiring in Madrid, claimed to have bagged the entire central committee of the Spanish Communist Party. He clapped some 70 persons into prison incommunicado. Next day, as if with damp fuses, 14 bombs burst belatedly in front of Madrid food shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Little Crazy | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...There were corpses on the road. A girl no more than 17, slim and pretty, lay on the damp earth, her lips blue with death; her eyes were open and the rain fell on them. People chipped at bark, pounded it by the roadside for food; vendors sold leaves at a dollar a bundle. Ghostlike men were skimming the stagnant pools to eat the green slime of the waters. Once our horses sheered off violently from two people lying side by side in the night, sobbing aloud in their desolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven Years of Valley Forge | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...streamlined washing machines--a kind that takes clothes soiled and dry in one lump and, for a dime in a slot, turns them out damp and clean half an hour later, with no personal attention in between--are another Brunswick selling point to a student's wife, who is apt to have an 8 hour-a-day job in Boston or Cambridge...

Author: By Charles R. Conklin, | Title: Grand Hotel, 1946 Version: Boston's Brunswick opens Its Doors--to Students This Time | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

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