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Word: igloos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hummed with nervous tension. This rocket, the Viking II, had misfired two weeks before, and a rocket that has once misfired makes everyone a little nervous. Sometimes rockets "walk" (i.e., move sidewise) on firing; sometimes they explode prematurely. On such occasions the control blockhouse, which looks like a concrete igloo, is a good place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X Marks the Minute | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...simple portrait of an Eskimo family and its struggle against the snow and ice of the Arctic is enlivened further by the obvious enjoyment Nanook himself found in front of the camera. You can learn something from this picture, even if you're not interested in building an igloo or harpooning a seal through the ice. A "March of Time" feature about Broadway's current troubles rounds out the Exeter bill...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Mine Own Executioner | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...live all winter in the same igloo, but every so often build a clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Build a New Igloo | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Sickness . . . is caused by very small germs. . . . A lot of them together look like a very small speck. They like the dark, dirty places. A few germs become a lot in a short time. . . . In spit there are too many to think of. . . . No one must spit in the igloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Build a New Igloo | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Operation Igloo. From the simple massiveness of Government House in the New City, Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., liberator of Ethiopia, High Commissioner of Palestine, looked out over his capital toward the bustling half-Jewish, half-Arab port of Haifa, 75 miles away. There the long arm of British policy, of which Sir Alan was but the firm hand, wrought its most arresting works last week. There Operation Igloo was in progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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