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Word: mumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, remote and mum, the Vice President hunted deer and superintended the digging of two new wells on his 23,000-acre ranch in Webb Countv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Out for Deer | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was to Premier Edouard Daladier, but he unquestionably saw the crisis from the inside. Last week he spoke his mind at the annual Trafalgar Day Dinner of Britain's Navy League while other U. S. crisis-insiders continued to keep mum about Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kennedy on Antagonisms | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

While Prime Minister de Valera talked, Prime Minister Lord Craigavon and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain kept mum. The first bigwig Prime Minister Eamon de Valera heard from-two days after making his demands-was President Roosevelt. Mr. John Cudahy, the U. S. Minister to Eire, merely dropped around in Dublin to present an official White House invitation to Prime Minister de Valera to visit the U. S. next spring. Since King George and Queen Elizabeth have not yet made clear whether they will extend their visit to Canada next spring to include the U. S., the White House invitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Like the Slovaks? | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

With the entire staff of the University from President Conant down to the lowliest instructor keeping strictly mum, the Cambridge Council's fling for publicity by demanding that Harvard be made a separate and distinct municipality began to die down last night. As a reckoning was made, the following facts had come out of the flareup...

Author: By Caleb Foote, | Title: HARVARD A MUNICIPALITY' STIR GRADUALLY SUBSIDES AS UNIVERSITY SEES PLAN AS RUSE | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

Last winter when a syndicate of Hollywood bigwigs, headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., succeeded in getting permission to build a second racetrack in Los Angeles County (to operate during the summer), local businessmen suddenly went mum. They decided to wait until the community was saturated with year-round racing before attempting any organized crusade against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hollywood Track | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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