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Word: mouthfulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Bulgaria, Turkey and Russia not acquiescent, No. 3 was a difficult plan. No. 1 would be a large, tough mouthful. No. 2 seemed likeliest, if it could be executed in stuch a way as not to injure Italian morale.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Axis on Second Front | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Slapstick he provided liberally-Chaplin the soldier of World War I firing an anti-aircraft gun in all heavenly and earthly directions; Chaplin the dictator who takes a huge mouthful of English mustard; Jack Oakie, the rival dictator, mugging and talking tough.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

An eagle-eye who can spot false teeth at a ten-yard glance is Boston Dentist Simon Myerson, brother of famed Harvard Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. Every time gentle, absent-minded Dr. Myerson sees a mouthful of neat, dead-white false teeth, he shudders. Five years ago, Dr. Myerson was struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unspottable Teeth | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

In any language, 2,000,000 words are a mouthful. In California, they are the approximate number of words required by a diligent ex-G-Man named Edwin Newton Atherton, after $40,000 worth of gumshoeing over two years, to round up the athletic abuses, mainly in football, prevalent in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pacific Simon-Purity | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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