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Word: holing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bang-Up Blend. In Nylstroom, South Africa, a habitual smoker absently dropped a .22 cartridge into his tobacco pouch, later filled and lit his pipe, puffed contentedly until the pipe abruptly and noisily vanished, and a small round hole appeared in the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...special envoy hurried away, the speaker's lamp started burning a hole through the lampshade beret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Unfinished Tour | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...tidal waves ravaged fertile Madras Province. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, blaming the British for the food failure, called on peasants to "rebel against the political and social conditions that brought [the famine] about. ... If we have to die, let us die like men and not like rats in a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Ek Ho! | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Kuhn is co-chairman with Levin H. Camphell '48 of the Council Committee on the General Education Report. He had a major hand in the preparation of the Council report on tutorial released last month. During the war, Kuhn did research work at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cater, Fenn, Kuhn Chosen To Fill Vacant Council Posts | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

...Newcomer. Australia had reason to be cocky. Though brilliant Adrian Quist was a little past his peak and suffering from recurrent asthma, two-fisted Jack Bromwich was better than ever. Aussie ace in the hole: a 24-year-old wonder who sometimes plays barefoot, named Dennis ("Dinny") Pails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Again, the Davis Cup | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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