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Word: eels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's five boroughs produced aluminum pieces by the hundred thousands. Biggest: a two-ton duralumin gate (damaged) from the Triborough Bridge. One of the smallest: an aluminum girdle, previously worn by an electric eel at the Aquarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL FRONT: Something To Do | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...Jellied Eel Salad. Ingredients: 4-lb. eel, 2 bay leaves, 8 whole allspice, 6 cloves, 2 lemon slices, ½ tsp. salt, ¼ tsp. pepper, unflavored gelatin, horseradish sauce. Directions: skin and clean eel. Cut on bias into 1-inch lengths. Cover with cold water, heat to boiling, skim and add remaining ingredients except gelatin. Simmer until eel is tender, about 1 hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: On the Bias | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...ersatz coffee and bread; for lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets instead of with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter in Europe | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Like an eel chopped to pieces, fragments of the French Army continued to wriggle and resist all across France last week even after the nation's surrender was signed and sealed in a railroad car at Compiegne (see p. 20). In hate and despair many a Frenchman threw his life away-taking a German or so with him-a week after the war had been lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Fighting Fragments | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Attach N.A.R.P.A.C. metal identification tags to all pets. An elderly woman promptly asked how to tag her pet, an eel named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Animal Raid Precautions | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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