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Word: dipping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bringing a little of the old world into the College, the language center on the third floor of the Union affords students a chance to dip into French and German culture at their leisure. Although emphasizing contemporary literature, the library contains many classic works in its 3000 book collection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign News on File At Language Center | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

...While piping hot dip in cold honey until completely covered. . . ." When we got hot over the blitzkrieg that swept 13 nations out of sight, the Japs began to pour the cold honey. . . . Every contemptible compromise of principle was proposed so that Japan could: ". . insert entire morsel in mouth and leisurely devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Said Adolf Hitler's Boston envoy, over the signature of Kurt Bohme: "This Con sulate has read the editorial . . in which the head of a nation, with whom the United States of America entertains dip lomatic relations, is insulted in such un civilized expressions, that this Consulate in the future must refuse to give your paper any information in whatever matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Traveler v. Fiihrer | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Gone, they hoped, and gone forever, were the days of political plunder that under the Longs and the Long machine had almost wrecked the State. Longsters had called Sam Houston Jones "High-Hat, Sweet Smelling Sambo." Last week perfume hawkers yelled: "Here y'are-dip in it-wash in it and win. Sam Jones sweet smellin' perfume. Get like sweet smellin' Sam, that Governor man." For the first time in twelve years, Louisiana smelled sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Sam Jones Comes to Town | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...still not at all sure about the trigger value of his own mob. Italians who cheered scenes in a war film showing the Allies to advantage had to be slapped and kicked in the pants by Fascist militiamen. The Roman Stock Exchange took a sickening 50-point dip at signs of Nazi-Fascist military cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Four Mobs and the Balkans | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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