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Word: gutted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filled. In a parlor of the Washington Hotel, the Stabilization Fund also held its first meeting last week. (Shortly, it will move into offices adjoining the bank.) First business was to elect Belgium's Camille Gutt (pronounced gut) the $30,000-a-year managing director -and half the Bank-Fund team. A small man with arched eyebrows and an engagingly informal manner, he has proved to be a financial wizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Open for Inquiries | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...after another, two lengths apart, and each tries to catch the shell ahead. Once the prow of the overtaking boat actually touches the other's stern, the overtaken boat loses one place. (The best place to bump is in a narrow part of the river called the Gut, which gives rise to such odd reports in English sporting pages as "Jesus Bumps St. John's in the Gut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull in a Bumping Race | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Eight Bells & Books. Junior's plebe year ("suck up your gut and pull in your chin") was hard going. Low marks made him double up on some courses, and all but forget football. Sometimes too weary to open a book at night, he would hit the hay at 8, set his alarm for a chilly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Passion Is Essential. He began by collecting ancient manuscripts and ancient instruments: a pardessus de viole (high-pitched, five-stringed viol), a viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ancient Instruments | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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