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Word: mum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pickers smarted but kept mum. When World War II canceled the Ryder Cup matches, Sarazen's squawk went the way of most sport squawks. Last month, however, when P. G. A. bigwigs were looking for ways & means to raise money for the Red Cross, they remembered it, decided to call Sarazen's bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ins v. Outs | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...amateurs who supposed, as many do, that all they had to do was keep time with the orchestra got a quick awakening. If they omitted the conventional opening down beat of the baton, Sammy Kaye's men kept mum. The orchestra played exactly as fast or slow as the stick-waver indicated, however unintentionally. If a saxophone or trombone thought he saw a signal to come in, he did so regardless-with the result that periodically everything broke down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kaye and Amateurs | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTICS: Miles on What Happened | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Roosevelt kept mum about what he learned by sending to Europe special war-investigating envoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Taft & Dewey have claimed the majority of delegates in Indiana, Kentucky, Montana. Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wyoming. Both have claimed votes in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, although these States had selected more than one Republican delegation, faced seating contests at the convention. Many a Republican State boss still sat mum on the sidelines, planned to use his quota of votes to make an effective deal at the convention, or toss them on to the band wagon as it rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Last Scurry | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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