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Word: montes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rolled Roast. In Great Falls, Mont., the Andrew Cowans prepared to enjoy a 47-ration-point pot roast that Cowan had helped prepare, presently found that even the gravy was tough, at length discovered he had innocently rolled it in plaster of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Knows-Smells. In Pryor, Mont., a marriage license was issued to Owen Smells and Mary Knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Arresting. In Great Falls, Mont., police clung to what dignity they could in their new pink radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lightning Lore | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Over the Hump. Near Missoula, Mont., southbound Motorist Aubrey Knowles found the highway blocked by a landslide, peeked over, found a thwarted northbound motorist; the two traded cars, went happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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