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Word: jump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year he and Neptune Products did the bulk of the canning business, upped 30% by big orders from soldiers & sailors taking up fishing all over the world. In all, the six canners sold 5,000,000 jars, grossed $350,000. This year, they expected to jump production still higher, and have already salted away $50,000 worth of salmon eggs for canning. But unless WPB relents, the industry will have to shut up shop March 1. By the end of summer, the supply of canned eggs on hand will be exhausted. Trout fishers who have used salmon eggs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHING: Out of Bait | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...white and gold) of climbing a gigantic wedding cake while vast choirs shout her praises. She dreams (in candy colors) of a circus which turns into a trial, with a gibbering jury of freaks and clowns. In spite of some Freudian symbols which may make a few cinemaddicts jump, these dream sequences are not very dreamlike. But as production numbers they will make many a cinemaddict's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...other side will be included a note to the effect that the musicians will be happy to answer questions concerning their music and earnestly request that they do not be asked to play "People Will Say We're In Love," "Oh What a Beautiful Morning," "One O'Clock Jump," or "Body and Soul...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 2/1/1944 | See Source »

Died. Floris ter Meulen, 63, socialite Dutch international banker; an unofficial envoy for The Netherlands; of a fall or jump from his office window; nearly four years after his daughter's similar death; in Manhattan's Pine Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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