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Word: fleshed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half roll" swoop between the two grandstands, barely far enough apart for his plane to have room to pass between. Crash-one wingtip hit the Diplomatic Stand. CRASH -the plane rebounded against the Presidential Stand, burst into flame and sprayed burning gasoline as its propeller slashed human flesh. The whole flaming mass crunched down upon spectators between the stands, slithered 65 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Death & Bolivar | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Chief drawing-card at a charity fête in Teddington, outside London, one day last week was a well-publicized ride by a well-clothed modern Lady Godiva. Hundreds of amused spectators lined the sidewalks as 13-year-old Mirabelle Muller, in flesh-colored trunks, brassière and long flaxen wig, mounted an old grey mare and ambled through the streets. No Peeping Tom peeked but a Prissy Peter caused lady and mare trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prissy Peter | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...though the spirit was daring, the flesh was weak. Some of them rode in wheel chairs. It looked like their last reunion. Spain will be fortunate if, in 2013, such a reunion can be held on the battlefield of Teruel-with Fascism and Communism as well forgotten as are slavery and abolition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: 75 Years After | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...like a human slaughterhouse. Japanese bombers, apparently operating from an off-sea base near the Portuguese colony of Macao, for the third successive week streaked bombs down on Canton in almost daily raids. To Canton's symphony of stenches was added another last week-that of dead, decaying flesh, intensified by sweltering heat. Rescue workers, handkerchiefs over their nostrils, scrabbled in the ruins to drag out the injured, could give no account of the total casualties. "The city is like an open grave in which the living and dead are mixed inextricably," cabled one harried United Pressman. Lowest estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Open Grave | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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