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Word: mouthsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 400 grinning natives greeted the three Washington specialists (a nose-&-throat man, an internist, a dentist). They had arrived in the Pribilof Islands, north of the Aleutians, for a quick checkup on the health of the seal hunters, who are wards of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tonsil Blitz | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

From time to time over 15 years, people have seen an enormous sea serpent glubbing about in Idaho's Payette Lake. Most of them kept their mouths shut. But someone always talked.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Slimy Slim | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

With beer as the original source of its fortune, the House of Bemberg acquired a near-monopoly of brewing in Argentina, then branched into public utilities, cotton, dairy products, wool and yerba mate (Paraguay tea). Sum total of the family fortune was anyone's guess, for the Bembergs kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Fall of the Bembergs | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Total caries (decayed, missing and filled teeth) is highest in men from the most prosperous communities, lowest in men from the poorest. This ratio is partly caused by the large number of fillings in the mouths of well-heeled citizens.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rich Teeth, Poor Teeth | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

To Stockholm last week came word of Nazi jitters in Norway. Four major power projects-at Vemark in the Rjukan Valley, Saude near Stavanger, Tysse east of Bergen and in the Glomfjord-each with nonferrous metal-producing facilities, have been abandoned by Nazi say-so. The reports spoke of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Shrinking Festung | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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