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Word: foams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly he turns a corner, steps into the full of the strong wind coming out of the southward dusk, laden with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/2/1933 | See Source »

...Louis sat up late to get the first taste of its famed foam. Citizens waited in their cars outside the Busch and Falstaff breweries, only ones operating, for the first issue of 3.2%. The Busch brewery had a brass band ready to play at midnight. When midnight came, steam whistles and sirens drowned the Busch music. By afternoon, the St. Louis beer supply was woefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Prosit! | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...University the true condition of its youthful wards. The allots are so arranged as to cover all the important points of the problem, and even bring to light some of its more obscure phases. The results of the poll will not, in all probability, crown Lowell House with foam, or set its bells to tintinnabulating beerily, but they will be a step toward definition and consummation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEPPING STEINS | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...last week in their yard in Los Angeles, John Henderson, 11, and his brother Leo, 9, were playing with their shepherd dog Bing. They noticed that he was foaming and frothing at the mouth, just as they did when they brushed their teeth. John and Leo got a toothbrush, tried to clean the foam away. When Bing growled at them, John said: "Stop it, Bing. Remember, you must never bite, no matter what we do to you." The foam kept coming in Bing's mouth so the boys got a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Songs & Skins | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

Swedes love Italy. As soon as possible Swedish Bridegroom Gustaf Adolf whisked off with his Coburg Sibylle to the blue, foam-flecked waters and sun-dappled hillsides of southern Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: No Light Thing | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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