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Word: mouthfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manchester, Conn., a leering jaundiced visage greeted Ong King with four shots into his quavering belly and one to the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laundrymen 's War | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...mouth already. Where do you want it?" said the gypsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heart in Mouth | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...from that day, Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith has traveled the globe with his heart in his mouth, preaching salvation, singing "Where He leads me I will follow," converting thousands. In South Africa after the Boer War, Negroes and white men quivered and rose in common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heart in Mouth | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...definitely proved relation between the two diseases. Nor is there positive relation between encephalitis lethargica and infantile paralysis, although the infectious agent seems to be the same in both diseases. In fact, doctors do not know the cause. They think infection is spread by secretions from the nose and mouth. Because they are so ignorant in this case, they do not know sure ways of prevention. However, doctors do know this: most people are relatively immune to encephalitis lethargica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: SLEEPING SICKNESS | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...Doubt surrounds the authorship of the book ECCLESIASTES. Some say King Solomon wrote it. Others attribute it to a Hebrew sage named Koholeth, whose name, coincidentally, means "wisdom." Koholeth at first puts his words into the mouth of Solomon, but later drops this literary device. The Greek word "Ecclesiastes" means "Preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Handmaiden's Wisdom | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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