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Word: moans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...super-super-liner that was to have wrested Atlantic supremacy back from Germany (TIME. Dec. 21). They knew that this half-born British sea monster (her embryonic name: No. 534) was not insured in Germany or anywhere else against Depression. Typically British, the thousands of letter writers made no moan, bade Cunard lo take courage and finish what Britons had begun. These brisk letter-writers, including many an old lady, finally overwhelmed Cunard Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates with offers of money which, in some cases, was enclosed in the form of crisp Bank of England notes. For the Cunard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Millions for Sea Monsters | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...moments, when the tense lovers were being buried alive, there came a hush. An impassive moon shone down and from not far away came a gentle hooting. Industrial Cleveland could take its culture in huge doses, but still there remained the reminding murmur of nearby switch engines, the low moan of homing ore boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Buckeye Opera | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle C (261 cycles). Wind may moan at 100 cycles, whine as high as 600 cycles. Not even Niagara can go so low as the big bassoon or the brass tuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lowest Notes | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Spanish military road to San Juan, the capital. By prearrangement, in the front of the crowds that lined the way were children, the brown, half-naked, half-starved little creatures who are Governor Roosevelt's chief concern.? Beggary is a pastime among these youngsters whose cry ("Gimme moan-ee") is known to every tourist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hot Sun & Linens | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...grads who moan about the Stanford rough of the good old days might do well to rack their brains and decide whether the rough of naughty-naught was as hard-boiled as some of Mexico's sophomores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Virility Necessary? | 2/28/1931 | See Source »

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