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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When swimming, always exhale through the nose, inhale through the mouth to "maintain a positive air pressure in the nasal cavities," protect the sinuses, nose and throat from the entrance of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tips for Terrestrials | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...picture on his own, went to Paramount to borrow Bing Crosby. Paramount would not lend Crosby, hired Producer Rogers instead. He auditioned 1,583 juvenile performers. Two of the hopefuls, a midget and a little girl who despite her mother's promptings stolidly refused to open her mouth, were incorporated into the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Author Boyle's little camel was puppyish, bumptious and a liar. Life had made his hard-working old mother cynical since the Arab driver jerked the ring in her tender mouth whenever she slacked up. She really wanted to eat green grass and drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Hoofs & Ice Cream | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Once upon a time Harvard Freshmen lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth life in dormitories and rooming houses all over Cambridge. Today first-year men dwell in the ancient Yard, deeded to the College in 1936; in the Harvard Union they had together, play pool, dance, and study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1943 Ninth Freshman Class to Live in Yard | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked, the giant broadbill swordfish, one of the seas' sportiest inhabitants, is the most difficult fish to take on rod & reel. Although more than 5,000,000 pounds of swordfish are harpooned by commercial fishermen off the Atlantic Coast every year, no more than a baker's dozen are caught by Atlantic anglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Louisburg | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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