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Word: mouthsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The U. S. people, strained, distraught, almost beyond the point of listening, opened their mouths and made a Noise. It was the last seven days.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Last Seven Days | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

In World War I and the Spanish Civil War, dead soldiers, without any visible wounds, were found near the sites of heavy explosions. Sometimes bloody fluid trickled from their noses and mouths. Examination of the lungs showed hemorrhages, pleural lesion or collapse. Recently Dr. Zuckerman undertook for the Ministry of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death by Concussion | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

The port and naval facilities of northeast Germany formed another natural group of targets for the British, who had only to find Germany's broad river,mouths at night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Britain | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Percussion orchestras mean little in the life of the man in the street. For Maestro John, Cage they are the medium of a rich and exciting fine art, shot through with potentialities. Purpose of his music, explains Cage, is the exploration of sounds and rhythms which were previously considered nonmusical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fingersnaps & Footstomps | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

What is more, said the Japanese, the gendarmes were slapped when they talked or spat from their bleeding mouths. And they were "forced to squat." "They got," said Colonel Peck drily, "the same consideration and treatment as any man we arrest-including a medical examination."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imitation of Naziism? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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