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Word: fountain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partisans with tommy guns stood guard where Jajce's steep and darkened streets leave the town for the mountains. The Germans across the ridge might know of the meeting, try a night attack. In the center of the old Bosnian town, in a shabby hall beyond the Turkish fountain, sat 142 sweating, cheering men, engaged in founding a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Rebirth In Bosnia | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...incubators. A mess hall (capacity: 450) had finer equipment than any hotel in Montana, but nothing and nobody to serve. A dozen boys and girls shouted down empty corridors of a school-house built for 200. Lloyd Badgley's store had piles of canned goods, a soda fountain, gleaming meat refrigeration, no customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONTANA: Ghost Town, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...audience patiently waiting, and between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning presented The Barretts of Wimpole Street, sustained only by one egg rustled up for her at 2 a.m. by Producer Guthrie McClintic. There is a story about Editor Robert Quillen, who used to spice his Fountain Inn (S.C.) Tribune with genealogical notices like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's End | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...fact, it was a soda fountain, but if the Chicago boys heard me say that, even 20 years later, they'd kill...

Author: By S. SGT George avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

...flavors of sweat, the human body is a regular soda fountain-the sweat of the brow is strong in uric acid, the sweat of the hands is strong in chloride (salt), the sweat of the thigh is strong in lactic acid. These pungent facts are disclosed in a report by Drs. Olaf Mickelson and Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota in the Journal of Biological Chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Varieties of Sweat | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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